According to Fromm, all forms of mature love are built upon four fundamental elements:

“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.”

Erich Fromm - Sevme Sanatı, sadece bir kitap özeti değil; bir yaşam felsefesidir. Fromm bize şunu öğretir:

He also emphasizes: