"As soon as a man experiences true, real love – the blissful adventure that every love is – we find that he breaks through the network of self-centeredness, that he is widened, and that he pierces through his own pettiness. Suddenly the lover ceases to be dominated by conventions and conventional values; he is freed from the fetters of what one does; he no longer lives as a one but as a real person."
— Dietrich Von Hildebrand
