Love is never any better than the lover.
Interpretation
The quality of love reflects the quality of the person giving it.
This quote by Toni Morrison emphasizes that love is inherently linked to the character and depth of the individual who offers it. It suggests that love is not just an emotion but a reflection of one's values, experiences, and personal growth, asserting that true love can only be as profound as the lover's own understanding and capacity for compassion and self-awareness.
In practice
This quote can be used to remind friends that true love is about personal growth at a wedding speech.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.
In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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