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.
I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.
Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.
Life with you was lovelyβand when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink βvβ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering βl.β Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
In the hope to meet_x000D_ _x000D_ Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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