Shekhar Kapur Quotes

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

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

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

In true love, you attain freedom.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

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

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

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

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

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.

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

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

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.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.