"Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love say… - Erich Fromm

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

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

The failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same as the pursuit of self-interest, but in the deterioration of the meaning of self-interest; not in the fact that people are too much concerned with their self-interest, but that they are not concerned enough with the interest of their real self; not in the fact that they are too selfish, but that they do not love themselves.