I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
Interpretation
True love keeps the spirit young and vibrant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that the act of loving deeply transcends the physical aging process, implying that the emotional and spiritual aspects of love imbue life with energy and youthfulness. By engaging in love, one experiences vitality and a sense of purpose, rendering the concerns of aging less significant.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of love in life.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.
If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.
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.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
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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