Erich Fromm Quotes

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Love is not a feeling, love is a response. Love is an action.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

I give people my heart and my full attention.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

To love is to act.

When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.

Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.

I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.

I actually care about things, and I care about people.

For me, love is magic; it's about trust and understanding. It's putting the other person before you effortlessly.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.