Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
Interpretation
Love provides strength to overcome life's challenges and personal failures.
This quote by Peter Ustinov emphasizes the resilience and enduring power of love. It suggests that the experience of love equips individuals with the emotional tools to face adversities, including their own shortcomings. Love acts as a foundation that helps people navigate the complexities of life and surmount obstacles, illustrating its vital role in human experience.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to highlight the strength of love in relationships.
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense, the patriotism of humans who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
Love me like you'll never see me again.
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
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