- "Ancient Greek philosophers identified six forms of love: familial love (storge), friendly love or platonic love (philia), romantic love (eros), self-love (philautia), guest love (xenia), and divine or unconditional love (agape)."
The importance of showing affection and care towards others, and the role of familial love in our lives.
Definition of love: Exploring the meaning of love as a virtue and understanding what it is not.
Types of love: Understanding different kinds of love such as eros, philia, and agape and their role in a relationship.
Love languages: Recognizing and expressing love in the ways that are meaningful to oneself and others.
Self-love: The importance of loving oneself and caring for one's own well-being.
Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
Compassion: Showing kindness and understanding to others who are suffering.
Respect: Treating others with dignity and honoring their inherent value and worth.
Forgiveness: Letting go of anger and resentment towards others for the sake of inner peace and healing.
Communication: The importance of listening to and expressing oneself honestly and respectfully in a relationship.
Boundaries: Understanding and setting healthy limits in a relationship to promote mutual respect and trust.
- "Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection... and its vice representing a human moral flaw akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism."
- "An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food."
- "In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships."
- "...owing to its central psychological importance, [love] is one of the most common themes in the creative arts."
- "Numerous cultures have also distinguished Ren, Yuanfen, Mamihlapinatapai, Cafuné, Kama, Bhakti, Mettā, Ishq, Chesed, Amore, Charity, Saudade (and other variants or symbioses of these states), as culturally unique words, definitions, or expressions of love."
- "Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species."
- "The triangular theory of love suggests intimacy, passion, and commitment are core components of love."
- "potentially leading people into a type of mania, obsessiveness, or codependency."
- "...with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection."
- "It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, oneself, or animals."
- "In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships."
- "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 encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states..."
- "...its vice representing a human moral flaw akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism."
- "The color wheel theory of love defines three primary, three secondary, and nine tertiary love styles, describing them in terms of the traditional color wheel."
- "Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species."
- "Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: unrequited love, empty love, companionate love, consummate love, infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love."
- "Ancient Greek philosophers identified... divine or unconditional love (agape)."
- "...[love] is one of the most common themes in the creative arts."