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“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”— Theodore Roethke “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”— 1 Peter 4:8
“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.”
“I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together.” — A.R. Asher “I am who I am because of you.
Eros was known for sparking the flame of love in gods and men. He is known for being portrayed as being armed with a bow and arrows or a flaming torch. He is also known for being disobedient but a loyal child of Aphrodite. [12] Philia love is the type of friendship love. In Greek, this translated to brotherly love.
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.
Conditional love is based upon conditions or expectations of the recipient being met and satisfied. [3] It is in some ways, is a way for the lover to diminish the autonomy and relatedness necessary in creating or developing intrinsic motivation. [4] Unconditional love places no conditions or expectations on the recipient.
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
Based on the content of that review, they proposed a biological definition of romantic love: [1] Romantic love is a motivational state typically associated with a desire for long-term mating with a particular individual. It occurs across the lifespan and is associated with distinctive cognitive, emotional, behavioral, social, genetic, neural ...