Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. — Erich Fromm. German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."
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.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'
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.