Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
But love me for love's sake, that evermore_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the purity of love, encouraging love to be given freely and selflessly.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's quote speaks to the idea of unconditional love, suggesting that one should love another not for their own sake but for the sake of love itself. This type of love is enduring and transcends time, allowing it to persist even beyond earthly existence.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony, the officiant might quote this to highlight the nature of everlasting love.
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
Learn to share your love with others, but keep part of this love for yourself
there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
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