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“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise” — Erich Fromm

3 July 2017 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Erich Fromm

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“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”

— Erich Fromm: /The Art of Loving/ (New York: Bantam, 1963) p.47

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