I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the power of love as a conscious choice linked to the ultimate goodness.
Martin Luther King, Jr. underscores the importance of love as a deliberate decision rather than a mere emotion. He asserts that true goodness can be discovered through love, equating love itself with divinity, suggesting that embracing love leads to a higher purpose and fulfillment in life.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the foundation of their union.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it β make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me βwrite the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.
I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
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