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.
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.
Love's very pain is sweet,_x000D_ _x000D_ But its reward is in the world divine_x000D_ _x000D_ Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.
When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen
I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
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