Transformed

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.” - Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

When I came across this quote, the quotation marks in "object of love" were missing, yet I knew that there had to be some for else the quote would make no sense, for love does not turn the loved one into an object, into something that can be controlled.

"...I'm heading for satisfaction of soul, that's all there is. Let it be my bliss."