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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 ...

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

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

[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.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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

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

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...

“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.”

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

"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."

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...

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

The marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert (otherwise known as Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel — quite a mouthful!) was one for the ages. Their love and devotion to each other was remarkable, ...

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

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

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

Where love is, there is the eye.

“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...

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

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...

“You are my greatest adventure.”

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

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

I wish for you good health in each other’s arms.

The marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert (otherwise known as Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel — quite a mouthful!) was one for the ages. Their love and devotion to each other was remarkable, ...

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

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.