Help please! Who's quote is this?

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never meant to be. - Unknown

What does that mean?

To me, this quote is speaking of the most fundamental rule of the universe. Love isn’t owned and cannot be taken. It can only be given. This quote talks about mutual love and of the only valid test. If you love someone, you have to give them the freedom to choose for itself.

The freedom to choose is important, as sometimes a love is out of duty, loyalty, fear (of loneliness or retaliation) or for some other reason. In each of these cases, the love (true love) is only in one direction, the other direction of love is tainted by the reason for the love (something other than true love).

By turning the other person loose, they if they come back, it is (one hopes) because they love you, and the feeling is mutual. If they don’t come back, you would only have been fighting a losing battle to hold on to them. That is a battle that you will eventually lose, so lose it early and get on with your life.

http://philosiblog.com/2011/08/1/if-you-love-somet...

In my opinion, it is the best advice I have ever heard and taken. Sometimes you have to let them see how much they miss you. What also happens is when they come back, you may have also had time to clear your head and see that you really just were in fear of abandonment. Once they come back you wonder what you ever saw in them. Then it is very easy to let them go on your terms, for good.

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