The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
Interpretation
Love is a powerful force that inspires and uplifts people, promoting hope and aspiration.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the admirable qualities of love, suggesting that it inherently seeks elevation and positivity. He contrasts love's uplifting nature with despair, indicating that love encourages individuals to look for the best in themselves and each other, thus fostering hope and aspiration rather than hopelessness.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a wedding speech to celebrate the power of love in uniting two people.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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