One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
Patrick SwayzeRead
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
Interpretation
A love scene is defined more by the emotions involved than by the physical act itself.
This quote emphasizes that the true essence of a love scene lies in the underlying emotions such as passion, desire, and fear rather than the physical act of love. It suggests that the deeper connections and feelings between individuals bring depth and meaning to their expressions of love, making them more powerful and impactful.
In practice
In a discussion about romance films, this quote could be used to emphasize the importance of emotional depth over physicality.
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul β it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of lifeβs morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just said to myself, one day I'll go to Norfolk and I'll find it there for her.' 'The lost corner of England,' I said.
My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.
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