“One is not loved accidentally; one’s own power to love produces love…To love
“One is not loved accidentally; one’s own power to love produces love…To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for [their] life, not only for [their] physical existence but for the growth and development of all [their] human powers. To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person’s life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth.”― Erich Fromm -- source link
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