Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness,compassion, and affection. In some religious contexts, love is not just a virtue, but the basis for all being, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" orAgape in the Canonical gospels. Love may also be described as actions towards others (or oneself) based on compassion.Or as actions towards others based on affection.
The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my partner"). "Love" can also refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros (cf.Greek words for love), to the emotional closeness of familial love, or to the platonic love that defines friendship, to the profound oneness or devotion ofreligious love. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
Humanistic psychology sets healthy self-esteem, understood as unconditional self-respect and self-confidence (interpretable in certain context as self-love), as an essential requirement for every healthy interpersonal relation, including interpersonal love.
Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari consider that capitalism produces a perversion of the natural concept of love, by placing the human being as a part of a production machine, and thus destructing the concepts of body and soul.
The word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that English relies mainly on "love" to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love." Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition.
Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't love. As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is sometimes contrasted with friendship, although the word love is often applied to close friendships.
When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing (cf. vulnerability and care theory of love), including oneself (cf.narcissism). In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, although the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry.
Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love".St. Thomas Aquinas, following Aristotle, defines love as "to will the good of another." Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value," as opposed to relative value. Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said that love is "to be delighted by the happiness of another."
Love is sometimes referred to as being the "international language", overriding cultural and linguistic divisions.
What is Love?
Our favorite description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin:"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine
-St. Augustine
We often celebrate LOVE on actually February, 14.
A Romantic Treasure Hunt With Love Quotes
With Valentine’s Day coming you may be trying desperately to come up with something really special to do for the love of your life. Flowers? Done it. Dinner and a show? Done that too. A card and candy? Done repeatedly. While none of those things are a bad idea or a bad thing to do, and they will likely be appreciated, you may be searching for something extra special. Well, what about giving the love in your life a romantic treasure hunt?
What is a romantic treasure hunt? We’re glad you asked. The traditional working of a romantic treasure hunt is when you set up a day or evening that is full of fun and romantic gifts and moments for the love of your life. This will take a little work to plan out, but it will be worth it.
Here are a few examples of how to do it.
You could begin the day by making breakfast in bed for that special someone. In addition to their favorite meal you will tell them that they are beginning their day of a Love treasure hunt and hand them a note that says –
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
While this is a love quote that is beautiful to read, it is also a quote that is telling your special someone a little something about what is going to happen in the hours to come. In this case, it could mean that you are going to take a trip out to the pier where you had one of your first dates.
Once there you could have flowers for your date with a note attached that says -
“If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud, or the moment just... passes you by.”
While this could mean you are going to announce your love for that special someone aloud, it could also allude to what’s next for your day, such as a special outdoor theater presentation that you are going to enjoy together.
Get the idea?
Now this doesn’t just have to be done when it comes to locations to head to over the course of a day. You can also bring this down to an at-home, evening level. You could hide fun and romantic gifts all over the house and leave clues to your mate keying them in on where to search. For example –
“Above the shade yet below the roof a vision of love is quite aloof.”
This could lead your special someone to search the top sills of the windows in the home until they find a very small package you have hidden. That package may have a piece of jewelry or other small special trinket as well as a clue that will lead them to the next present they are to find, such as –
“Nothing stokes the flames of love like a vision of you.”
Once your love looks in or around the fireplace, they will find the next present waiting for them. You can continue this for as many presents as you would like and for as many love quotes as you can find or make up to make it all work out. Love quotes are also easy to find online, as there are websites that give you long lists of them to choose from.
See, while you thought this would be an impossible task, it is far easier than you may have feared to have a little fun and give that special someone in your life a special romantic day they will never forget.
QUOTES:
-A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
Mistinguett-We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
William Shakespeare-If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.
Source Unknown-Love is like a war: Easy to begin, hard to end!
ancient Proverbs-"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
--Sarah Bernhardt-Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa Hoffman-As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you.
Karen Clodfelder-It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw-A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Russian Proverb
Russian Proverb
-The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.
Source Unknown-I know what you want. And I know what you need. But I'm gonna screw it up, yeah, cause I'm an idiot. And I'm your boyfriend.
Jimmy Fallon-When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]
William ShakespeareFind a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her...
THESE ARE THE LOVE:
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