QuoteProject
Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
Dante Alighieri
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Love and a kind heart are interconnected and represent the same essence.

In this quote, Dante Alighieri suggests that love is not just a feeling but also a manifestation of a gentle and kind heart. He implies that true love involves empathy, compassion, and a softness of spirit that is essential for deep emotional connections.

Themes

LoveGentleHeartKindnessEmotion

In practice

Example use cases

Sharing this quote during a wedding ceremony to emphasize the importance of love and kindness.

More from Dante Alighieri

I saw within Its depth how It conceives_x000D_ _x000D_ All things in a single volume bound by Love_x000D_ _x000D_ of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante AlighieriRead
Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante AlighieriRead
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante AlighieriRead
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante AlighieriRead
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante AlighieriRead
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
Dante AlighieriRead

Similar quotes

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.
Nick CaveRead
Love, too, was just a question of time
Paulo CoelhoRead
Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
Maya AngelouRead
There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.
RumiRead
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
Jorge AmadoRead
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.
Pope John Paul IiRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.