Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Interpretation
A mother's love is unconditional and inherent, providing a sense of tranquility.
This quote captures the essence of a mother's love as a pure and calming force that exists without any prerequisites. Unlike many relationships that require actions or validation to earn love, a mother's love is innate and freely given, offering a sanctuary of peace and acceptance.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of family, one might use this quote to highlight the significance of a mother's emotional support.
Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern β and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.
Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.
He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.
You know what love is? _x000D_ It is all kindness, generosity.
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
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