Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
Interpretation
True happiness comes from mutual support and fearlessness in a relationship.
This quote emphasizes the idea that genuine happiness is found in the companionship of a loved one, where both individuals contribute to each other's well-being without fear. It highlights the strength that comes from being in a loving relationship, suggesting that love provides a safe space to be vulnerable and unafraid.
In practice
This quote was beautifully shared at a wedding ceremony during the vows.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.
From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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