Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
I love this simply because it's cute, and I guess it's a sign of the times in many respect. It's pretty much saying you complete me, only in the sweetest way possible.
Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.
I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
Sometimes when we fall in love there simply is no going back. There's not turning back to the people we once were or simply falling in love with someone else. When we truly fall in love and find the person we're going to spend the rest of our lives with there's no falling in love with someone else. It simply isn't possible. You don't have your heart to give anymore.
I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.
There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down. . . and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
There's magic to love. . . Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil. "
I could feel the warmth of his presence as if a soft blanket had been wrapped around my soul, around my heart. It held me and protected me. It sheltered me and I knew I wasn't alone anymore.
The price of love is only love,. . . one must love if one desires to be loved.
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.