Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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And they are fools who roam;
... NATHANIEL COTTON Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you wi... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save th... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battl... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the ... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's s... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and ... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never... NATHANIEL KAHN We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the ... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. NATHANIEL LEE When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ... NATHANIEL RATELIFF Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or a... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt a... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it le... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling ... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an Eng... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE