I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
Interpretation
Love is characterized by unwavering loyalty rather than fleeting appearances or excitement.
In this quote, Sylvester Stallone expresses that true love is defined by absolute loyalty and dependability rather than just physical attraction or transient feelings. He emphasizes that while people and their looks may change over time, the strength of loyalty in relationships endures, making loyalty the true essence of love, even if it may not always be dramatic or thrilling.
In practice
This quote can be used during a wedding speech to highlight the essence of true love.
When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.
At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.
I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.
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