Love .. is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery. - Anne Truitt

Unless we are very , very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on perceptions that are in turn based on indifference to what is other than ourselves. - Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt on Compassion, Humility, and How to Cure Our Chronic Self-Righteousness
An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement… Love, and forcible resistance to evil-doers, involve such a mutual contradiction as to destroy utterly the whole sense and meaning of the conception of love.” - Leo Tolstoy

Why We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and the Truth of the Human Spirit

In the experience of love lies the only answer to being human, lies sanity. - Erich Fromm

No one's fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen. - Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich on Love, Loss, Public vs. Private Happiness, and the Creative Process