Vivi Vardi

“I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love—yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love—or to be loved by—is difficult.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving