Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

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

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

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.

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.

Men want to make women happy.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

I do like to belong to a man.

People should be free to enter into any type of human relationship that they want.

Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.

Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life.

I love Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. You see the love, and you can see the support, and they partner on things and produce together. But she has a life, and he has a life.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.

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

A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.