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 donβt lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.
I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.
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