It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.
Interpretation
This quote expresses how love can grow and deepen over time, particularly through the cycles of nature.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery reflects on the nature of love as a profound and evolving experience that reveals itself gradually. She suggests that the realization of love is tied to the seasons, especially spring, symbolizing rebirth and renewal, indicating that the true essence of love unfolds over time, culminating in a deeper understanding as life progresses.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a wedding ceremony to highlight the journey of love.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Make no mistake: I love women. I'm married to one, I was birthed by one, and I played one in my high school production of 'Romeo and Juliet.' No one else could fit into the bodice.
Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based on these. And, in the end, there is really only one. Love. In truth, love is all there is.
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