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.
If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
What is important is how well we love. God will make our _x000D_ love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.
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