Romance is defined as the expressive and pleasurable feeling which arises from an emotional attachment or attraction towards another person. Human beings across cultures form romantic bonds which last forever. In such a bond emotion becomes crucial and only through emotion can a romantic bond last.
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An illustration of love and feeling provides us with a sense of security and comfort; furthermore, romance is an integral part of marriage; it includes sexual interest, strong emotion and love intensity which benefit the emotional development throughout life.
Romantic Relationship as emotional development
Louis de Bernières explains the intensity of romance by his following quote:
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
This somewhat explains the intensity with which a person loves another; once you’re engaged in it, there’s no escape from it without bringing forth disastrous results. Love is enough to drive a person to insanity, but routine romance can help sustain the love and even let it grow. Positive emotion is developed and through such a romantic relationship one becomes independent while.
Romance as the Pleasurable Feeling
Helen Keller states that romantic love is
the best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.
Indeed, love is an abstract feeling. It can’t be heard unless expressed in the form of words. It can’t be seen unless expressed in the form of actions. Love is something that can and must be sensed internally, and it is then when we can see and feel the true beauty of love.
Sometimes I can’t see myself when I’m with you. I can only just see you.
Jodi Lynn Anderson tells us how love teaches us to think from a dual point of view. Sometimes, it’s not about us. Sometimes, it’s about our loved ones, and their happiness. It is nice to think about others for a change and about what makes them happy.
Romance as expressive feeling
Like David Levithan said,
It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
Not everyone is lucky enough to be loved by the one they love. Learn to take charge of your deeds and actions, especially when it comes to expressing emotions for a loved one. So when someone loves you, be accountable for it. Love can take us to another level. It is the most euphoric sentiment. It is easy to differentiate love from other emotions because it is felt from the heart. Jalaluddin Rumi quotes,
only from the heart can you touch the sky.
A little bit of romance can bring a bundle of joy and happiness. It can brighten your day; therefore, romance at the start of the day can make you feel much more positive about everything.
A List of Romantic Quotes
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
Anonymous
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.
Christina Ricci
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker
Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz
I used to be a hopeless romantic – I fell in love with everyone I went out with.
Jeremy London
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
Nick Carter
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde – Selected Quotes on Love
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Sir Thomas More
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love — the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
Woody Allen
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
La Rochefoucauld
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde – Quotes and Wits about Life
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
Stephen R. Covey
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bove
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
Martha Beck
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty….they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Unknown
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen