We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.
Interpretation
Love may overlook imperfections, but it is focused and determined in its pursuit.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the paradox of love; while it may be described as 'blind' in the sense that it overlooks flaws and undesirable traits, it also possesses an acute perception that seeks out what it truly desires. Love is not indifferent but is rather a powerful force that intensely searches for the objects of its affection, often ignoring everything else.
In practice
In a wedding speech, to illustrate the nature of love and commitment.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
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