Quote by Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

• 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.

• 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.