Edgar Quinet Quotes

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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.

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.

Every time you get something, give something away.

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.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Giving is true having.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

You have to give to be able to receive.

One who has no love in his heart will try to possess everything for himself. One who has love in his heart is ready to sacrifice everything, including his own body, for the benefit of others.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

A lot of people are obsessed with their possessions, but that's not right. It's OK to own a lot of things as long as you're willing to share them.

I like to think I'm a pretty good friend. I love having a good time, and I enjoy being able to share those good times with others.

The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

Who are you?" I asked. "You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours." ~Clea / Sage, pg. 105

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.