Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
Interpretation
Love is a powerful force that inspires growth and positivity, surpassing the negativity brought by hate.
In this quote, Ella Wheeler Wilcox emphasizes the transformative power of love, suggesting that love fosters growth and positivity in individuals, while hate has a much more destructive and extinguishing effect. As humanity progresses, the nurturing qualities of love can ignite passion and improvement in society, indicating that love is ultimately more powerful than hate in shaping a better world.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of kindness and compassion in society.
Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; _x000D_ Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, _x000D_ And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. _x000D_ Be not afraid _x000D_ To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.
It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.
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