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Love is giving, rather than receiving from "summary" of The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Love is not just a feeling, it is an active power in human beings. It is the capacity to care, to help, to protect, to nourish, and to respect. Love is not something that we get, but rather something that we give. When we talk about love as giving, we mean giving in the broadest sense, giving as something fundamental to our existence. Many people mistake the need for love as a need for receiving love from others. However, this is a misunderstanding. The need for love is actually a need to give love, to be able to express our capacity to love. Love is an active power that transforms us, it changes us from being takers to being givers. When we truly love someone, we give to them without expecting anything in return. This is the essence of love. To love means to give oneself...
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