But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
Interpretation
Love requires active companionship and shared experiences rather than mere feelings.
This quote highlights that love is not just about the emotion of being in love, but about the quality of time spent together, the friendships formed, and the work put into maintaining a relationship. It emphasizes that sometimes, it's better to end a love that isn't fulfilling than to let it stagnate and ultimately lead to greater pain.
In practice
This quote would be perfect to share during a wedding to emphasize the importance of daily efforts in love.
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
And writers say, as the most forward bud_x000D_ _x000D_ Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,_x000D_ _x000D_ Even so by love the young and tender wit_x000D_ _x000D_ Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,_x000D_ _x000D_ Losing his verdure even in the prime,_x000D_ _x000D_ And all the fair effects of future hopes.
Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you." -Liesel
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
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