Love is a passion that can''t be exact. It''s hard to know exactly what it is. We all love. but once it''s burned away, It''s gone. There''s a difference between passionate liking and love.
Christmasthat magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrancea day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
''Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one''s own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one''s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.