I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
Interpretation
True love keeps the spirit young and vibrant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that the act of loving deeply transcends the physical aging process, implying that the emotional and spiritual aspects of love imbue life with energy and youthfulness. By engaging in love, one experiences vitality and a sense of purpose, rendering the concerns of aging less significant.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of love in life.
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?
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.
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