You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
Interpretation
Love is an inevitable force, much like gravity, that cannot be blamed for its effects.
This quote suggests that love is a natural phenomenon that occurs beyond our control, similar to gravity. Just as one cannot hold gravity responsible for a fall, one should not blame the circumstances of love for its complexities and consequences; instead, it is a profound and inherent force in human experience.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to highlight the uncontrollable nature of love.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
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