romantic love on Foolishness

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

[Romantic] Love may not be literally blind, but it does seem to be literally incapable of reason and the levels of appropriate negativity necessary for realism.

There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.

Love . . . is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

"We are one/One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."

Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely. But Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless a...

During the time of Oliver Cromwel ascendancy in England, a young soldier faced execution as the curfew bell was set to toll. Desperate to save him, the soldier's beloved approached Cromwell, plead...

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

Love is an agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other.

One day we were out running errands. The radio in my car was playing in the background, and between songs there was an advertisement for an online dating service. The spokesman-doctor-expert guy was d...

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time, and…when the torch is put to it, that which is within you must burst into blaze...

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—“free-love”—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and...

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

“My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the...

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

George Matheson was just entering the bewildering teenage years when doctors informed him he was going blind. Undeterred, he pressed on with his education and graduated from the University of Glasgow ...

If it is right, it happens—the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

The problem with the myth of “the one” is that it assumes that affection is the glue that holds the marriage together, when really it is your commitment to marriage that safeguards the affection. So d...

"To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all."

A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other.

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half hour – i...

Where love is, there is the eye.

The magic of a couple’s relationship is that, when two people fall in love, whatever they need to do for themselves to grow emotionally is most often the very thing that the partner needs from them. I...

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”

“You are my greatest adventure.”

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.