Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Interpretation
Love is the strongest and most influential force in the world.
In this quote, Nelson Rockefeller emphasizes the profound impact of love as a driving force in human existence. He suggests that love transcends all other powers, influencing relationships, motivations, and actions in profound ways, and it is essential for fostering connection and unity among people.
In practice
Use this quote to inspire a speech on the importance of love in community building.
There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so so special, Colin, and you can't possibly let this girl make you think otherwise because you are the most magnificent, brilliant boy-" And right then, the most special, magnificent, brilliant boy bolted into his bathroom and puked his guts out. An explosion, sort of.
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