Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.

— The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm (via tylerjweld)

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it 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.

— Erich Fromm , The Art of Loving (via scrap—of—sassafras)

(Source: miss--bianca)

To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

— The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm (via cinthiapa)

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 (via sooooos87)

There’s been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

— Michael Pollan (via mbmatsqui)

elviralo: “Everything Was Meant To Be This Way”

NABYLA BOER
15 JUNE 1990
Uni Göttingen Germany
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"Now I see the secret of the making of the best person. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth"
-Walt Whitman

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