"We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love."

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Source: Man's Search for Himself.

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Rollo May

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Rollo May was an influential American existential psychologist known for his works on love, creativity, and the human condition.

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