Life is brief but love is LONG .
Interpretation
Love endures beyond the brevity of life.
This quote suggests that while life itself may be short and fleeting, the love we experience and give can have lasting significance and power. It emphasizes the strength and permanence of love in contrast to the ephemeral nature of existence.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a wedding speech emphasizing the lasting nature of love.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.
In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
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