LOVE
“Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says, ‘I need you because I love you.’ “ Erich Fromm
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slow down and REFLECT
on the MEANING and the MESSAGE of today’s quotation
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“Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says, ‘I need you because I love you.’ “ Erich Fromm
In Your Own Words…
In your own words, what is the central message of the above quote by the German-American social psychologist Erich Fromm?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
Have any people, including yourself, in your own life exemplified the practice of mature love? If so, who, and why would you describe them as having demonstrated mature love?
If not in your own life, then who outside of your personal life do you consider exemplars of mature love?
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” (John Stuart Mill)
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
Mature love is an important idea for success in life. Money can’t buy it, and it’s value as an intangible expression of success in life is often underappreciated.
“Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.” (Rick Warren)
“Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.” (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
“How do you spell love?… when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.” (Josh McDowell)
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Quotation AI Assistant
Interested in seeing what artificial intelligence (ai) has to say about the meaning of today’s quotation? Compare it to your own interpretation. You may be fascinated, or even possibly humbled.
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IMAGE OF THE DAY
Mature or Immature? (dreamstime.com)
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