That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.
Interpretation
Love is lasting and constantly refreshed, unlike fleeting passions.
This quote by Jorge Amado emphasizes the enduring nature of love, suggesting that while passions may fade over time, true love has the ability to renew itself and persist indefinitely. It highlights the distinction between temporary feelings and the deeper, more resilient bond that characterizes genuine love.
In practice
During a wedding toast, one might use this quote to highlight the enduring nature of the couple's love.
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.
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
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.
I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.
We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.
My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people.
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
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