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There are so many love quotes for her that you can use to express how she makes you feel. ... “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” — Paulo Coehlo, “Aleph”
Love quotes guaranteed to make you swoon. In the words of Johnny Cash: Love is a burning thing. New love, old love, love that fizzled and then sparked again—it’s all magnificent and wondrous.
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” — Alexander Smith “Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.”
Unrequited love has long been depicted as noble, an unselfish and stoic willingness to accept suffering. Literary and artistic depictions of unrequited love may depend on assumptions of social distance that have less relevance in western, democratic societies with relatively high social mobility and less rigid codes of sexual fidelity.
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]
Unlike unconditional love which represents a limitless and altruistic form of love, conditional love is based upon conditions or expectations of the lover being met and satisfied. [ 3 ] Conditional love, in some ways, is a way for the lover to diminish the autonomy and relatedness necessary in creating or developing intrinsic motivation. [ 4 ]
“Love and the self are one, and the discovery of either is the realization of both.” — Leo Buscaglia “In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are.”
Variations on the Word Love is a poem about love by Margaret Atwood, who is regarded as one of Canada's greatest living writers. [1] The poem appears in True Stories ( Oxford University Press , 1981), her 9th poem collection, [ 2 ] which is dedicated to Carolyn Forche . [ 3 ]