Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep commitment to love and connection, illustrating how every action is directed toward uniting with a loved one.
In this quote, Arthur Golden highlights the profound and often selfless journey of love. The speaker reflects on their life, emphasizing that every decision and step taken—even from childhood—has been motivated by the desire to be closer to a significant other. This sentiment illustrates the transformative power of love, suggesting that it shapes our choices and paths in life.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony to illustrate the significance of lifelong commitment.
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for _x000D_ one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. _x000D_ Alas, don't spoil this precious moment. _x000D_ Moments like this are very, very rare.
How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too.
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