We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
People tend to romanticize what they can't quite remember.
One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.
So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy. ' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busymoving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
We all romanticize the people we adore.
You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.
People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.
The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
I guess we romanticize the loser.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Do not romanticize the poor. . . We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated. " But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem. . . .
"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.
As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.
I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.
People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
