The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
Interpretation
Love is a journey filled with ups and downs, not a simple path.
Madeleine L'Engle's quote highlights the complexity of love, suggesting that it is not a straightforward experience but rather one characterized by fluctuations in emotions and circumstances. Just as a landscape has hills and valleys, so too does love present challenges and triumphs, making the experience rich and multifaceted.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to emphasize the journey of love.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.
But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.
All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
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