The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
Interpretation
The worth of love lies in the actions and intentions of the person giving it.
This quote emphasizes that love is defined not by external factors or the responses of others but by the qualities and intentions of the person who loves. It suggests that true love is a reflection of the lover's character and choices, highlighting the personal responsibility inherent in the act of loving someone.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding speech to highlight the importance of mutual love.
Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
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