It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo BuscagliaRead
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
Interpretation
Love is best understood through actions rather than mere words or thoughts.
This quote emphasizes that experiencing love requires active participation and demonstration of love in various forms. It suggests that understanding the essence of love involves embodying it through one's actions, thereby making it a practical and lived experience rather than just an abstract concept.
In practice
During a wedding speech, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of actively loving one's partner.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
To love others you must first love yourself.
I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.
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