It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
Interpretation
Love allows us to perceive deeper truths beyond superficial appearances.
This quote suggests that love is not about ignoring flaws or imperfections; rather, it enhances our ability to see the true essence of a person. Just as a painter focuses on capturing the most important elements of a scene, love helps us appreciate the core qualities of someone, pushing aside distractions and superficial judgments.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding ceremony to highlight the beauty of love.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
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