Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
Interpretation
Love is a profound force that reflects the true value of humanity.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the seriousness and depth of love, portraying it as a divine essence that transcends triviality. He suggests that love should be understood as a fundamental aspect of human worth and dignity, rather than something to be taken lightly or casually.
In practice
In a wedding speech to highlight the importance of love in marriage.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
My soul Is Naked. _x000D_ It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.
We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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