That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.
Interpretation
Love is lasting and constantly refreshed, unlike fleeting passions.
This quote by Jorge Amado emphasizes the enduring nature of love, suggesting that while passions may fade over time, true love has the ability to renew itself and persist indefinitely. It highlights the distinction between temporary feelings and the deeper, more resilient bond that characterizes genuine love.
In practice
During a wedding toast, one might use this quote to highlight the enduring nature of the couple's love.
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.
Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. Thereβs nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
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