The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
Interpretation
Love is a journey filled with ups and downs, not a simple path.
Madeleine L'Engle's quote highlights the complexity of love, suggesting that it is not a straightforward experience but rather one characterized by fluctuations in emotions and circumstances. Just as a landscape has hills and valleys, so too does love present challenges and triumphs, making the experience rich and multifaceted.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to emphasize the journey of love.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.
And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,_x000D_ _x000D_ Everybody sees you're blown apart,_x000D_ _x000D_ Everybody feels the wind blow.'
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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