What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.
As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
Love is something that we need to learn.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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