Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.
Interpretation
This quote symbolizes love as something vibrant and beautiful, akin to a flowering plant.
Madeleine L'Engle uses the metaphor of a bright flower to illustrate the nature of love, emphasizing its beauty and vitality. The description of love as youthful and radiantly beautiful suggests an enduring joy and freshness that can be obtained through relationships, highlighting the positive and uplifting aspects typically associated with love.
In practice
In a wedding speech, one might say, 'Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful, and it brings joy to all of us.'
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.
You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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