Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that true love is unconditional and substantial; anything less is not genuine love.
Toni Morrison's quote reflects on the nature of love, asserting that love must be deep and authentic. She suggests that superficial or insincere forms of love do not qualify as real love, urging the importance of emotional depth and resilience in relationships.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, one might quote this to highlight the significance of true love.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
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