All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Interpretation
True love is founded on friendship, otherwise it is unstable.
This quote emphasizes the essential role of friendship as the foundation for any deep and lasting love. Without the solid support of friendship, love is likely to falter and not endure, much like a poorly built structure lacking a strong base.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a wedding speech emphasizing the importance of friendship in a marriage.
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 cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.
I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
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