He recognized her despite

He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to … Read more

Someday, when my children

Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I’ll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. … I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a … Read more

I need you because

I need you because I love you. Erich Fromm

Immature love says: ‘I

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ Erich Fromm

Love is the only

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm

I love you for

I love you for the part of me that you bring out. Elizabeth Barrett Browning