romantic love on Receiving Love

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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 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.

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.

Where love is, there is the eye.

"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."

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 ...

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

“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.”

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

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

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

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...

[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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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, ...

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.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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...