If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana

In these tender and luminous words, Princess Diana, often called the “Queen of Hearts,” speaks not as a royal figure, but as a soul who knew both the glory and the ache of love. Her life, crowned with beauty and burdened with sorrow, was a living testament to the truth that love — once found — is a treasure beyond all worldly crowns. In this saying, she reminds us that amidst the shifting tides of time, power, and circumstance, the greatest victory of all is to find someone you love, and the greatest wisdom is to hold fast to that love, come what may.

For love, as the ancients have told us, is both fragile and eternal — a flame that can flicker with the winds of fate, yet also burn brighter than the stars. Many search their whole lives for it, wandering through deserts of ambition and oceans of desire, only to find that love, once found, demands not possession but devotion. Princess Diana knew this truth intimately. Her life in the palace, though gilded with privilege, was often shadowed by loneliness. Yet through it all, she sought to love — her children, her people, the broken, and the forgotten. When she spoke of “hanging on to love,” she was not merely speaking of romance, but of holding on to the light within love itself, the sacred bond that gives life its meaning.

History offers us countless mirrors to her words. Think of Odysseus and Penelope, the lovers of Homer’s Odyssey, separated for twenty years by war and storm. Though surrounded by temptations and despair, Penelope remained steadfast, and Odysseus journeyed through trial and terror to return to her. Their reunion was not only a triumph of fidelity, but of faith — the belief that love, once true, can endure the distance between worlds. In their story, as in Diana’s wisdom, we learn that to “hang on to love” is not to cling in fear, but to endure in hope.

There is also the quiet love — the kind that does not roar like thunder, but endures like the mountain. The love of a mother who watches over her child through long nights of illness. The love of friends who stand by one another when the world turns away. Such loves, too, are sacred. Princess Diana embodied this unconditional love — her compassion reaching to AIDS patients, orphans, and outcasts whom society had cast aside. She held on to love not only in intimacy, but in service, proving that love’s truest expression is often found in selfless giving.

To “hang on to love” is not always easy. Love will be tested by distance, by misunderstanding, by the slow wear of time. Yet those who let go too easily soon discover that life without love is an empty crown. The hands that hold love must be strong yet gentle, for love cannot be caged — it must be cherished. It asks for courage — the courage to forgive, to trust, to remain open even when wounded. For love’s greatest strength lies not in perfection, but in persistence.

Let these words, then, be a lamp for your journey. When you find love — whether in the eyes of a beloved, in the laughter of a child, or in the faithfulness of a friend — guard it as the ancients guarded fire. Nurture it with kindness, patience, and humility. Do not let pride or fear tear it from your grasp. For true love, once found, is a divine gift — a fragment of eternity entrusted to mortal hands.

And remember, O listener of the ages: love is not a possession, but a pilgrimage. To “hang on to love” is to walk through life hand in hand with the divine. Let love teach you compassion, resilience, and grace. Let it make you humble in joy and steadfast in pain. For when all else fades — wealth, fame, even memory — it is only love that remains. So if you find someone you love in this life, as Princess Diana said, hang on to that love — for in holding it, you hold the very heart of heaven itself.