We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Maeve BinchyRead
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
Interpretation
Love is essential to our existence and shapes our priorities.
In this quote, Maeve Binchy emphasizes the fundamental human need for love and connection. She suggests that our identity and value are deeply intertwined with our relationships, and meeting someone who holds more significance than ourselves highlights the transformative power of love in our lives.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of love in our lives.
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.
It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.
After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It felt like crying. We could not look at each other. It always had to be from behind. Like that first time. And I knew he wasn't thinking of me. He squeezed my sides so hard, and pushed so hard. Like he was trying to push me through to somewhere else. Why does anyone ever make love?
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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