Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Interpretation
True love involves selflessness, giving without expecting anything in return.
This quote by Oscar Wilde emphasizes that the essence of love is found in the act of giving without any expectations of receiving something back. It suggests that genuine love is rooted in selflessness and altruism, where one cares deeply for another's happiness and well-being without seeking personal rewards or acknowledgment in return.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, to highlight the essence of true love.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.
In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
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