Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
Interpretation
Love with full commitment and intensity, as if it will last forever.
This quote emphasizes the importance of fully immersing oneself in love and treating each act of love as if it holds eternal significance. It suggests that to truly experience love, one must approach it with depth and sincerity, acknowledging its potential to profoundly impact our lives.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony, sharing this quote can emphasize the lasting nature of love.
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.
If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.
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