Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.
Interpretation
Love can thrive in any environment, whether lavish or desolate.
This quote by Giovanni Boccaccio suggests that love is not confined to beautiful or opulent places. Instead, it possesses the remarkable ability to manifest in the most unexpected and unadorned locations, emphasizing that love transcends material wealth and can bring joy even in the harshest conditions.
In practice
This quote could be used at a wedding ceremony to emphasize that love's strength is not dependent on wealth.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
and he said her name to fill the space of five years.
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