There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Interpretation
Deep love leads to deep disappointment; they are interconnected emotions.
This quote emphasizes the profound connection between love and disappointment. When we invest deeply in our relationships or passions, we open ourselves up to the potential for intense disappointment, suggesting that the depth of our feelings shapes the intensity of our experiences, both positive and negative. Thus, it posits that the capacity to feel profound love also means we can experience profound sorrow.
In practice
In a speech about relationships, one might say, 'Remember, there can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love, so cherish those you hold dear.'
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.
In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of _x000D_ love, can only be understood in prayer. _x000D_ Pray and weep, kneeling before the _x000D_ Cross.
Man is in love and loves_x000D_ what vanishes,_x000D_ What more is there to say?
I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
I guess I would just say that in general, one of my weaknesses is that I love everything. There's too much of everything to keep up with it all. I get bored with Silicon Valley technology a lot. I've always had much more of a draw to the people who are doing things for love than the people who are doing things for money.
The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.
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