<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459867" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This life is 'On Approval</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is ‘approve’ another word for ‘love’? <br>So that, when we say ‘I love you! ’ there’s the sense, <br>‘It’s good – I’m glad – that you are in this world! – <br>that you exist! ’ – so that, to love, becomes <br>an act of will; creative affirmation? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sense of holiness; and music; sunlight; lemon curd – <br>from these, ‘approval’ stretches out a list <br>that may be boundless, as it sings them into praise; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">approving even dreams into reality: <br>as if to kneel, self to self, with God <br>and, eye to eye, both say, ‘I’m glad that you exist..’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[leaning gratefully on the writings of Josef Pieper]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459867" data-title="This life is 'On Approval de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Is ‘approve’ another word for ‘love’? So that, when we say ‘I love you! ’ there’s the sense, ‘It’s good – I’m glad – that you are in this world! – that you exist! ’ – so that, to love, becomes an act of will; crea..."></div> </div> </div>

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