I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.
Interpretation
True love embraces acceptance and personal growth.
This quote by Paulo Coelho emphasizes that genuine love involves unconditional acceptance of one's partner, allowing each individual the freedom to evolve and grow in their unique ways. It suggests that love is not about changing someone to fit your ideals, but rather supporting and nurturing their personal journey.
In practice
In a wedding speech highlighting the importance of acceptance in a marriage.
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.
From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
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