romantic love on Life is Short

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, ...

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...

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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.

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

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

Where love is, there is the eye.

“You are my greatest adventure.”

To abide in love means to have open eyes, to be able to see something that only a few see, namely, the outstretched, begging hands of the others who are along the way, and now not be able to do anythi...

"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."

No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude and women’s love.

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

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

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

Pray less that God would show you who is the right husband or wife and pray more to be the right kind of husband or wife.

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

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...

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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

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...

“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.”

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 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...

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