True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
Interpretation
True love is recognized through emotional understanding rather than physical appearance.
This quote emphasizes that genuine love is felt and understood at a deeper emotional level, beyond mere physical attraction. It suggests that while our eyes can be misled by superficial qualities, the heart perceives the true essence of love, which lies in emotional connections, authenticity, and the intentions behind those we love.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony to emphasize the depth of the couple's love.
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.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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.
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.
I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.
But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
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