Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.
Interpretation
Love should come naturally and cannot be forced or calculated.
This quote emphasizes that true love must arise spontaneously rather than being a product of logical reasoning or deliberate thought. It suggests that the most genuine forms of affection are those that occur unexpectedly and without premeditation, highlighting the emotional and instinctual nature of love.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to emphasize the naturalness of love.
The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; But though love cannot be forced on anyone, It can be awakened in him through love itself. Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.
There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream _x000D_ thy flowing wounds supply, _x000D_ redeeming love has been my theme, _x000D_ and shall be till I die.
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