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?
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
Just try to love, and manifest it. When your heart is open, there is this energy of love that flows in, fulfills everything and somehow transmutes itself into actions.
God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.
You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.
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