Henry Cloud Quotes

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

There is nothing you can control about love.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

Falling in love is like owning a dog.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

I keep the people who I know love me really close.

Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.

When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.

If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.

My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.