Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Love without attachment is light.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.