Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Interpretation
Love is a powerful emotion that impacts our thoughts, feelings, and sensory experiences.
This quote from Laozi emphasizes the all-encompassing nature of love, suggesting that it is not just an emotional bond but an intense experience that engages our intellect, emotions, and physical sensations at the same time. It illustrates how love can profoundly influence our perception and reactions, making it one of the most powerful and complex human experiences.
In practice
In a wedding speech, one might say, 'As Laozi noted, love is of all passions the strongest, reminding us of the powerful bond we share.'
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
How easy love makes fools of us.
Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.
Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud
That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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