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Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[SUP][1][/SUP] It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[SUP][2][/SUP] It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.[SUP][3][/SUP]
Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states.[SUP][4][/SUP] This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
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.[SUP][5][/SUP]
Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.[SUP][6][/SUP]
I have to give someone else's definition of love because I have none of my own. I've never been in love; nobody has ever been in love with me; my relationship with my parents was more of a close friendship and I don't remember hearing "I love you" from them.
How do you, personally, with you own words, define love?
Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[SUP][1][/SUP] It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[SUP][2][/SUP] It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.[SUP][3][/SUP]
Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states.[SUP][4][/SUP] This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
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.[SUP][5][/SUP]
Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.[SUP][6][/SUP]
I have to give someone else's definition of love because I have none of my own. I've never been in love; nobody has ever been in love with me; my relationship with my parents was more of a close friendship and I don't remember hearing "I love you" from them.
How do you, personally, with you own words, define love?