Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
Bill WattersonRead
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Interpretation
Dreaming of loved ones helps bridge the gap of separation.
The quote expresses the idea that dreams serve as a means of connection between people who are physically apart. By dreaming of each other, individuals can maintain their bond and experience togetherness, even when they cannot be together in reality.
In practice
During a speech about love and relationships, one might include this quote to emphasize the importance of dreaming of loved ones.
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.
And do so, love, yet when they have devised_x000D_ _x000D_ What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend,_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized_x000D_ _x000D_ In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;_x000D_ _x000D_ And their gross painting might be better used_x000D_ _x000D_ Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.
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