Love Quotes Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.”

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”

“When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.”