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The bible actually uses the word charity but its the same thing. Love is all the things that are precious, patience, gratitude, humble and more

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1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Do Love Is Patient Love Is Kind Wedding Decoration Love Scripture vows decor faux foil love never ends love never fails

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Calligraphy 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Do Love Is by BellePapiers

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This is the chemical formula for love: C8H11NO2+C10H12N2O+C43H66N12O12S2 dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin.

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Queen - Somebody To Love (Official Video)

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love is love it what you love

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a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/love

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i agree with this because you can love more than just one thing not just a person you can love nature sports all kinda of stuff and even if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend you can love other people like your parents your bother sisters friends because our heart might be small by how it looks but it can be big inside by having so much love and spreading it out .. with the stuff and people you love

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Polyamory is not an allergic reaction to bad past relationships

My poly-journey started many moons ago, in the throes of monogamy. I had always been very lucky in love as many beautiful souls have allowed me to love them.

So why did I feel guilty and antagonized by my feelings to love more?

That's when I started reading about and experimenting with polyamory. It took some time, many trials and errors, a little bit of heartbreak, and a lot of perseverance but that's true of all relationships, isn't it? It's been a long road but I feel I'm finally coming out of my stumbling poly-adolescence and emerging a more surefooted grown-up.

Most of the time, when I tell people I identify as polyamorous, they just assume it's a fancy word for a sexy free-for-all sans accountability. There are many things that poly can be but it most certainly is not that. That's called being single (and a bit of a jerk).

If you want a free ride on the anti-commitment train, stay single. Someone looking for, or in, a poly relationship is still in a relationship; it's just a different kind. There are still rules to follow. The difference is there is no standardized version of it to fall back on.

You have to define these rules for yourself along with your partner(s) and come to mutually beneficial agreements. Whether it means having other purely sexual partners, other romantic partners, or a mixture of both besides your primary partner, it's up to you. In the end, for it to work, everyone involved must commit to loving each other freely, openly, honestly and for love's sake alone.

Another misunderstanding I often hear is "oh, you just haven't met the right person yet." This understanding, that my poly-ness is some sort of defect in myself or my past lovers, that all it would take is for someone to just "love me right" and I'd regain my "capability" of loving others "right." Of course, in these terms, the "right" kind of loving is monogamous.

The problem here is that I'm not broken. My need for many loves is not an allergic reaction to bad past relationships or some kind of abuse. My need for many loves stems from my heart and my soul and the fact that I love people. I want to experience all the greatness and profound connections this world has to offer.

What sort of person would demand that I ignore a part of myself, romantic or otherwise, to satisfy their own insecurity? Asking someone to remove jewels from their crown just so I can carry it is not true love. I would never ask that of someone so no one should ask that of me. If anything, we must get stronger hands.

Many people worry that if their partner has another boy/girlfriend, they will have less affection for them. The good news is this is entirely false and I'll tell you why. Your love is not a grapefruit. That is, your love is not a finite resource.

Love does not have limits. Our time, money, and other resources do, most definitely. But not our love. It's up to you how you spend those resources but I am not rationing out pieces of my grapefruit-love to make relationships with multiple people work.
Look, none of this is easy. Having multiple voices at the table can be noisy but the best part is, when it works, it works. That's when things really start to get exciting.

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My poly-journey started many moons ago, in the throes of monogamy. I had always been very lucky in love as many beautiful souls have allowed me to love them. So why did I feel guilty and antagonized by my feelings to love more? That's when I started reading about and experimenting with polyamory.

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willingness to prioritize another’s well-being or happiness above your own, my source is www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/love

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: strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties

: attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers

After all these years, they are still very much in love.

: unselfish loyal and benevolent (see ) concern for the good of another: such as

: holding one's opponent scoreless in tennis

Synonyms

Examples of love in a Sentence

Noun Verb I love either rushing off into abstractions, or shamelessly talking personalities. "Nay," said Elizabeth, "this is not fair. You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of any body. I only want to think you perfect, and you set yourself against it. Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your privilege of universal good will. You need not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'love.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Word History

Noun and Verb

Middle English, from Old English lufu; akin to Old High German luba love, Old English lēof dear, Latin lubēre, libēre to please

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)

Verb

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

The first known use of love was before the 12th century

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"Love." Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love. Accessed 9 Oct. 2023.

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strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties; attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers; affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests... See the full definition

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SUMMARY: Love overcoming anything trusting and two hearts combined together to make b bigger heart. I agree with this resource because it is showing to resolve differences and that two people who are truly in love only have half a heart until they meet a person the love and they complete each others heart and they are better together and not complete unless the other person is in their heart.

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love is the most powerful emotion a human being can experience

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Don't let the word love define your LOVE
Love is the most powerful emotion a human being can experience. The strange think is, that almost nobody knows what love is. Why is it so difficult to find love? That is easy to understand, if you know that the word "love" is not the same as one's feeling of love.
The word "love" is used and abused for the expression of different sets of feelings.
The word love is used as an expression of affection towards someone else (I love you) but it also expresses pleasure (I love chocolate). To make it a little more complicated, the word "love" also expresses a human virtue that is based on compassion, affection and kindness. This is a state of being, that has nothing to do, with something or someone outside yourself. This is the purest form of Love.

The ancient Greek used 7 words to define the different states of love:

Storge: natural affection, the love you share with your family.

Philia: the love that you have for friends.

Eros: sexual and erotic desire kind of love (positive or negative)

Agape: this is the unconditional love, or divine love

Ludus: this is playful love, like childish love or flirting.

Pragma: long standing love. The love in a married couple.

Philautia: the love of the self (negative or positive)

These are 7 different kind of feelings. The love you feel for your partner is not the same as the love you feel for your mother. Even the love for your partner changes in time. You feel different emotions for different situations and people.

But still, we use the same word. It is easy to understand that a confusion is easy made while communicating. I can say "I love you" to two different people (and mean it), but I am actually feeling in a different way.
This confusion is not only the case while 2 people are talking, your own brain does not get it.
What you feel is controlled by the right side of your brain and language is controlled by your left side. If you use the word "love" 10 times a day with different situations, it losses power. Your left part or your brain does not get fully activated when you really mean "I love you" and want to get exited about it. 50% of your brain is a lot.

The first thing that you need to do is learn the differences of the (7?) states of love. Not the words, but how they feel. It is easy if you recognize the words. It is basic training. Awareness, that is the secret to love.
Love is a practice, it is not something you find or don't find. You can practice love for the rest of your life.
Don't abuse the word love. Use other words where you are not addressing emotion towards other people.

Example: I love chocolate, becomes: I enjoy chocolate. I love my job, becomes: I have passion for what I do.

Enjoying, loving and passion are 3 different emotions. It is essential to learn (again) the true meaning of words, not merely to communicate with someone else, but also so learn to experience them. Words are very powerful instruments. Not only to communicate with others, but also with your self. The words you use, creates awareness and eventually your reality.

If you use words wisely, you can learn to recognize what kind of love you are feeling, and enjoy the different kinds of love. With one person of different ones.
If you don't know how to find love with in you, you will never find it outside you.
Words are agreements to express ideas or feelings. The meaning of words is not absolute, it is always a personal interpretation. The group of feelings associated with the word "love" is difficult to understand, and even more difficult to express to other person. Let put is this way: it is impossible with only one word.

With the creation of a word, you can give it a special meaning. Some lovers create words to express what they feel to each other. A word creates and agreement or memories. This moments can be repeated when you use that word or when you think about it.

In other languages exist words, related to love, that expresses different situations that don't have a translation to English. When you know this words, you recognize this feelings. You get more grip in what you are experiencing.
Beautiful words in other languages:
Yuanfen (Chinese): A love relationship that has been established by lot, based on principles of Chinese culture.

Mamihlapinatapei (Yaghan): A look that without words is shared by two people who want to initiate something, but neither start.

Cafuné (Brazilian Portugees): Slowly stroking your fingers through someone else's hair.

Retrouvailles (France): The happiness of seeing someone again after a long time.

La Douleur Exquise (France): The enormous pain in your heart when you desire someone you cannot have.

Ya'aburnee (Arabic): The hope that you will die earlier than the other, so you don't need to live without the other.

Forelsket (Nordic): The euphoria you feel when you fall in love for the first time.

Saudade (Portugees): The feeling of longing for someone you love, but is far away.

This "moments" are so important in other cultures that they have words to express them. My point is, don't use just one word to define your love. Learn this "words" and recognize them when you are living them.
With love, you get what you put in
Love is an emotion in action. You can learn how to feel and cultivate your love... First learn and know the different situations of love. Learn how to recognize them when you are feeling them. Then you go and share your love with others.

Love between 2 people can only begin if the interaction is based on truth, trust and respect. That is something you start giving. This is essential to grown mutual love between 2 individuals. If the other person gives you wat you give, then you start feeling love for each other and it can grow...
It is not difficult to understand love, once you know how love works.
It is very easy to fall in love with someone. The difficulty is to stay in love. But if it is difficult to stay in love, that means, that it is not the love of your life. It is a love experience. Love is always beautiful, if it is not beautiful, it is not love. Time to move on. Sometimes, love just fades away. It is better to move on when you don't feel anything, then when you feel the opposite of love.
Finding your loved one or a relationship...
If you want to find the love of your life, start being aware of your use of the word love. Saying and thinking I want to find the love of my life and not I want a relationship is fundamental. You find what you are looking for.

"Being in a relationship" is a marketing term invented in magazines. Everyone that is not single is in a relationship. To address a large group of people it is perfect, but it is to vague to define your personal situation.
The only important question for you should be: "Am I experiencing love or not?"
This is the first philosophy essay forming a series under the name: "Natural Philosophy" about the most important matters of life, trying to define a "Theory of everything". Continue reading here.

Support the crowd source campaign to publish a ebook, and distribute it for free. (Link in my profile) or download the first ebook in the Natural Philosophy series here

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Don't let the word love define your LOVE Love is the most powerful emotion a human being can experience. The strange think is, that almost nobody knows what love is. Why is it so difficult to find love? That is easy to understand, if you know that the word "love" is not the same as one's feeling of love.

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Love is a feeling towards something or somebody.

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Love is a feeling towards something or somebody.

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Ex: I love my dog
2.EX: I love that girl
love comes in different ways. I agree with what the source says because I can have love for my dog,football, or to a girl.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love

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love is expresing your fillings

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love is being kind

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The ancient Greek used 7 words to define the different states of love:Storge: natural affection, the love you share with your family.Philia: the love that you have for friends.Agape: this is the unconditional love, or divine loveLudus: this is playful love, like childish love or flirting.Pragma: long standing love. The love in a married couple.Philautia: the love of the self (negative or positive)

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The ancient Greek used 7 words to define the different states of love:Storge: natural affection, the love you share with your family.Philia: the love that you have for friends.Agape: this is the unconditional love, or divine loveLudus: this is playful love, like childish love or flirting.Pragma: long standing love. The love in a married couple.Philautia: the love of the self (negative or positive)

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love is often confuzed with other types of love

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Don't let the word love define your LOVE
Love is the most powerful emotion a human being can experience. The strange think is, that almost nobody knows what love is. Why is it so difficult to find love? That is easy to understand, if you know that the word "love" is not the same as one's feeling of love.
The word "love" is used and abused for the expression of different sets of feelings.
The word love is used as an expression of affection towards someone else (I love you) but it also expresses pleasure (I love chocolate). To make it a little more complicated, the word "love" also expresses a human virtue that is based on compassion, affection and kindness. This is a state of being, that has nothing to do, with something or someone outside yourself. This is the purest form of Love.

The ancient Greek used 7 words to define the different states of love:

Storge: natural affection, the love you share with your family.

Philia: the love that you have for friends.

Eros: sexual and erotic desire kind of love (positive or negative)

Agape: this is the unconditional love, or divine love

Ludus: this is playful love, like childish love or flirting.

Pragma: long standing love. The love in a married couple.

Philautia: the love of the self (negative or positive)

These are 7 different kind of feelings. The love you feel for your partner is not the same as the love you feel for your mother. Even the love for your partner changes in time. You feel different emotions for different situations and people.

But still, we use the same word. It is easy to understand that a confusion is easy made while communicating. I can say "I love you" to two different people (and mean it), but I am actually feeling in a different way.
This confusion is not only the case while 2 people are talking, your own brain does not get it.
What you feel is controlled by the right side of your brain and language is controlled by your left side. If you use the word "love" 10 times a day with different situations, it losses power. Your left part or your brain does not get fully activated when you really mean "I love you" and want to get exited about it. 50% of your brain is a lot.

The first thing that you need to do is learn the differences of the (7?) states of love. Not the words, but how they feel. It is easy if you recognize the words. It is basic training. Awareness, that is the secret to love.
Love is a practice, it is not something you find or don't find. You can practice love for the rest of your life.
Don't abuse the word love. Use other words where you are not addressing emotion towards other people.

Example: I love chocolate, becomes: I enjoy chocolate. I love my job, becomes: I have passion for what I do.

Enjoying, loving and passion are 3 different emotions. It is essential to learn (again) the true meaning of words, not merely to communicate with someone else, but also so learn to experience them. Words are very powerful instruments. Not only to communicate with others, but also with your self. The words you use, creates awareness and eventually your reality.

If you use words wisely, you can learn to recognize what kind of love you are feeling, and enjoy the different kinds of love. With one person of different ones.
If you don't know how to find love with in you, you will never find it outside you.
Words are agreements to express ideas or feelings. The meaning of words is not absolute, it is always a personal interpretation. The group of feelings associated with the word "love" is difficult to understand, and even more difficult to express to other person. Let put is this way: it is impossible with only one word.

With the creation of a word, you can give it a special meaning. Some lovers create words to express what they feel to each other. A word creates and agreement or memories. This moments can be repeated when you use that word or when you think about it.

In other languages exist words, related to love, that expresses different situations that don't have a translation to English. When you know this words, you recognize this feelings. You get more grip in what you are experiencing.
Beautiful words in other languages:
Yuanfen (Chinese): A love relationship that has been established by lot, based on principles of Chinese culture.

Mamihlapinatapei (Yaghan): A look that without words is shared by two people who want to initiate something, but neither start.

Cafuné (Brazilian Portugees): Slowly stroking your fingers through someone else's hair.

Retrouvailles (France): The happiness of seeing someone again after a long time.

La Douleur Exquise (France): The enormous pain in your heart when you desire someone you cannot have.

Ya'aburnee (Arabic): The hope that you will die earlier than the other, so you don't need to live without the other.

Forelsket (Nordic): The euphoria you feel when you fall in love for the first time.

Saudade (Portugees): The feeling of longing for someone you love, but is far away.

This "moments" are so important in other cultures that they have words to express them. My point is, don't use just one word to define your love. Learn this "words" and recognize them when you are living them.
With love, you get what you put in
Love is an emotion in action. You can learn how to feel and cultivate your love... First learn and know the different situations of love. Learn how to recognize them when you are feeling them. Then you go and share your love with others.

Love between 2 people can only begin if the interaction is based on truth, trust and respect. That is something you start giving. This is essential to grown mutual love between 2 individuals. If the other person gives you wat you give, then you start feeling love for each other and it can grow...
It is not difficult to understand love, once you know how love works.
It is very easy to fall in love with someone. The difficulty is to stay in love. But if it is difficult to stay in love, that means, that it is not the love of your life. It is a love experience. Love is always beautiful, if it is not beautiful, it is not love. Time to move on. Sometimes, love just fades away. It is better to move on when you don't feel anything, then when you feel the opposite of love.
Finding your loved one or a relationship...
If you want to find the love of your life, start being aware of your use of the word love. Saying and thinking I want to find the love of my life and not I want a relationship is fundamental. You find what you are looking for.

"Being in a relationship" is a marketing term invented in magazines. Everyone that is not single is in a relationship. To address a large group of people it is perfect, but it is to vague to define your personal situation.
The only important question for you should be: "Am I experiencing love or not?"
This is the first philosophy essay forming a series under the name: "Natural Philosophy" about the most important matters of life, trying to define a "Theory of everything". Continue reading here.

Support the crowd source campaign to publish a ebook, and distribute it for free. (Link in my profile) or download the first ebook in the Natural Philosophy series here

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Don't let the word love define your LOVE Love is the most powerful emotion a human being can experience. The strange think is, that almost nobody knows what love is. Why is it so difficult to find love? That is easy to understand, if you know that the word "love" is not the same as one's feeling of love.

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Love is a amazing feeling you have in your heart when ever you see that person you have that feeling that you cant explain in your heart because its so amazing.

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Love is being nice.

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love you love me and love is to make you do something good

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Love is what makes you smile when you try

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Love  is a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties

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Love is someone who cares about being you, your personality someone who is actually there. Like they appriciate you.

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A great interest and pleasure in something

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love is a strong feeling you have towards someone special.

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love is a special affection that you feel towards someone or something

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love is a special affection you have for someone

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Love is an intense feeling of deep affection.

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Love is a deep affection towards someone that you care about.

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a sign of true love and patience.anyone can say i love you but not anyone can.

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What Is Love" is a song recorded by Trinidadian-German Euro dance artist Haddaway for his debut album, The Album. The song is recognizable by its refrain "What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me...no more." It was a No. 1 hit in 13 countries

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What Is Love" is a song recorded by Trinidadian-German Euro dance artist Haddaway for his debut album, The Album. The song is recognizable by its refrain "What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me...no more." It was a No. 1 hit in 13 countries

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love is something you feel deeply about somebody.

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love is a good feeling in your body and makes you happy

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love is when you appreciate the little things in life and and not for granded.    

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love is when you appreciate the little things in life and and not for granded.    

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love is a strong affection that you for someone.

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love is who you  feel about someone and who your body react when you are with someone you like or love

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love is when you appreciate someone and you care about them.

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love is a feeling that you feel for a special person.

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love is when you are really attracted to someone.

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Love is the affection towards someone or you might admire them in a way. Or its just a song

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is when they love you for who you are

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Love is when somebody has feelings for another person

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Love is when someone has strong feelings for something/someone.

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A intense feeling when u love one another

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love is when someone has an intense feeling of deep affection and a person or thing that ones loves

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Love is caused from when a gender is attracted to a other gender because the biology in the human body

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a person or thing that one loves. Its a deep feeling or strong feeling.

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love is a deep feeling of affection.

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when someone or something has an intense of deep affection or a person or thing that one loves

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an intense feeling of deep affection or a person or thing one loves there are mostly just definitions i can find but basically they all say the same thing. 

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an intense feeling of deep affection or a person or thing one loves there are mostly just definitions i can find but basically they all say the same thing. 

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Love is a feeling of a deep affection.  I think love is when you care for someone and your nice to them, and that it doesn't matter of what they buy you.

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love is a deep feeling of affection.