Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
Interpretation
Love cannot be quantified; its existence is validation enough.
This quote by Jorge Amado emphasizes that love is an intrinsic emotion that cannot be quantified or evaluated through metrics or proofs. Instead of needing validation or evidence, love simply exists as a powerful and sufficient experience, highlighting its profound nature in human life.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony to emphasize the depth of love shared between partners.
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.
That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.
Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. Thereβs nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.
Love me like you'll never see me again.
If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.
No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.
His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
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