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The verb form of the word "agape" goes as far back as Homer. In a Christian context, agape means "love: esp. unconditional love, charity; the love of God for person and of person for God". [3] Agape is also used to refer to a love feast. [4] The christian priest and philosopher Thomas Aquinas describe agape as "to will the good of another". [5]
This love term has to do with spirituality, and originates in the seventh or eighth century B.C.E., when it was mostly used by Christian authors to describe the love among brothers of the faith ...
Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary. [1]
the shepherd Corydon burned with love for the handsome Alexis: Virgil, Eclogues, 2:1. Highlighted by various authors (Richard Barnfield, Lord Byron) as a reference to same-sex love. Also Alexim. forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit: perhaps even these things will be good to remember one day: Virgil, Aeneid, Book 1, Line 203 fortes fortuna adiuvat
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, [1] and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.
Often described as spiritual, meditative, raw, yearning, divine, longing, beautiful, transcendent and profound, the four-part "A Love Supreme" — broken down into “Acknowledgment ...
Saudade [a] (English: / s aʊ ˈ d ɑː d ə /; [2] plural saudades) is a word in Portuguese and Galician denoting an emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent someone or something.