Henry Cloud Quotes

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

Free love sounds great.

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

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.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

Love is where it's at. I'm not speaking of sexual love. I'm talking about where you love each other, want to do the best for each other and just just are happy you found each other.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

In true love, you attain freedom.

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

Love without attachment is light.

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.

Free love never works.

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