One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
StendhalRead
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
Interpretation
Love requires investment and reflection to fully appreciate and understand.
This quote by Stendhal emphasizes the idea that love is a reciprocal relationship; the depth and quality of love we experience is directly proportional to the effort and emotions we contribute to it. Just as a well provides water only when it is filled, love thrives on our emotional input, and the beauty we perceive in love mirrors our own inner feelings and perspectives.
In practice
In a wedding speech to highlight the importance of nurturing love.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.
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