Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Interpretation
Love is a deeper connection that involves loyalty, trust, and acceptance of imperfections.
This quote by Ann Landers illustrates that love is not merely a romantic feeling but a profound form of friendship marked by understanding, trust, and mutual support. It emphasizes that true love encompasses forgiveness, loyalty through challenges, and a willingness to embrace each other's flaws, rather than seeking an idealized perfection.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a wedding speech to highlight the importance of understanding in love.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.
Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. _x000D_ Other desires are substitutes _x000D_ for that way of being.
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.