Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
Interpretation
Love often emerges from our deepest pains and struggles.
This quote suggests that the most profound expressions of love often arise from experiences of suffering and heartache. It reflects the idea that the places in our lives where we face adversity can lead to the development of compassion, empathy, and deep connections with others, highlighting the transformative power of love in the midst of pain.
In practice
In a speech about resilience, one might say, 'Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.'
It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
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