When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
Lou GehrigRead
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep admiration for a wife's strength and courage.
Lou Gehrig's quote highlights the profound appreciation and respect he has for his wife, emphasizing that her unwavering strength and remarkable courage are invaluable. It suggests that true love is demonstrated through support and recognition of each other's qualities, particularly in challenging times.
In practice
During a wedding toast to honor the bond between the couple.
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.
If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress.
It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.
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