When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.
Interpretation
Love fosters teamwork and partnership, allowing individuals to share both joys and burdens.
This quote by Paul Gallico highlights the strength and comfort found in a loving relationship. It emphasizes how love creates a partnership where individuals support one another, sharing both happiness and challenges, making them feel like they are stronger together against the world's difficulties.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to emphasize the power of love in a relationship.
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?
Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love.
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.
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