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To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
Erich Fromm1900–1980
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm1900–1980
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956)
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3
- Responsibility
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956)
- Envy
It is true that selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost1874–1963
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost1874–1963
- Marriage
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost1874–1963A Witness Tree (1942)
- Life & Death
We love the things we love for what they are.
Robert Frost1874–1963Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), Hyla Brook
Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
Robert Frost1874–1963Birches (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), BirchesIn context
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983“Synergy” onwards, 1005.56
- Truth & Lies
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016
- Marriage
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016Newsweek, March 28, 1960
- Marriage
- Men
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016
- Marriage
- Sex