And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
Interpretation
Love is a powerful and sustaining force in life.
Cornel West emphasizes the profound and enduring nature of love, suggesting that it is not merely a fleeting emotion but something that can provide support and strength throughout life's challenges. He presents love as a great force that can uplift and sustain individuals, highlighting its essential role in human existence.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a wedding ceremony to highlight the importance of love in marriage.
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.
Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
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