Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep commitment to love and connection, illustrating how every action is directed toward uniting with a loved one.
In this quote, Arthur Golden highlights the profound and often selfless journey of love. The speaker reflects on their life, emphasizing that every decision and step taken—even from childhood—has been motivated by the desire to be closer to a significant other. This sentiment illustrates the transformative power of love, suggesting that it shapes our choices and paths in life.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony to illustrate the significance of lifelong commitment.
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
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