romantic love on Romance

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

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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, ...

[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.

“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.”

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...

"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."

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

“You are my greatest adventure.”

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

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

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Where love is, there is the eye.

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

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

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

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

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 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...

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

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...

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

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

“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...

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

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

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.

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...

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