Love is the most durable power in the world.
Interpretation
Love is a strong and lasting force that can endure through time and challenges.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the enduring and powerful nature of love as a force that transcends difficulties and lasts over time. It suggests that love is not only a feeling but also a form of strength that can influence and change the world, reinforcing the idea that love is fundamental in creating lasting connections and social movements.
In practice
In a speech about community, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, love is the most durable power in the world, reminding us to build our efforts on compassion.'
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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