Where pride begins, love ceases.
Interpretation
Pride can hinder love and genuine connections between people.
This quote suggests that when an individual becomes overly prideful, it can lead to the erosion of their capacity to love and form meaningful relationships. Pride often creates barriers and misunderstandings, while love thrives in humility, empathy, and openness. Thus, fostering love requires the diminishing of pride.
In practice
This quote can be used in a relationship counseling session to illustrate the importance of humility in love.
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He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
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