I can only fulfill myself by serving someone or something apart from myself, and if I am unable to care for anyone or anything separate from me, I am…

- Milton Mayeroff

We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.

- Milton Mayeroff

To care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him grow and actualize himself.

- Milton Mayeroff

We are closest to people when we help them grow.

- Milton Mayeroff

Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.

- Milton Mayeroff