Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.
The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.
Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.
The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.
I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.
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