Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Interpretation
Love transcends time, erasing memories of origin and fears of conclusion.
This quote by Madame De Stael suggests that love is a timeless force, capable of nullifying our perception of time. When we experience true love, we are so absorbed in the moment that we forget the past and stop worrying about the future, encapsulating the feeling of being eternally connected to another person.
In practice
A wedding speech emphasizing the timeless bond between the couple.
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.
Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.
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