But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the importance of anticipation and timing in relationships.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery's quote highlights the significance of being present and mindful in relationships. It suggests that love thrives on anticipation and the idea that one's heart prepares itself to welcome a loved one at a specific moment. If someone arrives unexpectedly, the emotional readiness to embrace them may be lost, emphasizing how timing can enhance the depth of connection between individuals.
In practice
In a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of timing in relationships.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.
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