what is love?????

Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my wife"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. 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.





The English word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that English relies mainly on "love" to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love." Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition.
Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't love. As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, although other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.
When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself (cf. narcissism). In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, although the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry.
Two hands forming the outline of a heart shape.
Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to the Beatles' "All you need is love." St. Thomas Aquinas, following Aristotle, defines love as "to will the good of another." Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value," as opposed to relative value. Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said that love is "to be delighted by the happiness of another."
Love is sometimes referred to as being the "international language", overriding cultural and linguistic divisions.

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William Blake (28 November 1757–12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and print maker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Although he only once journeyed farther than a day's walk outside London during his lifetime, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself"

Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterized as part of both the Romantic Movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the church of England, Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolution, as well as by such thinkers as Jakob bohme and Emanuel Swedenborg.

Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th century scholar William Rossetti characterized Blake as a "glorious luminary," and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, or to be classed with contemporaries, or to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors."

Historian peter Marshall has classified Blake as one of the forerunners of modern anarchism, along with Blake's contemporary William Godwin.

LOVE'S SECRET

by: William Blake (1757-1827)

NEVER seek to tell thy love,

Love that never told can be;

For the gentle wind doth move

Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,

I told her all my heart,

Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.

Ah! she did depart!

Soon after she was gone from me,

A traveller came by,

Silently, invisibly:

He took her with a sigh.

Why are married men so attractive?

Do you really find married men attractive and wonder why all the good men are taken? Well, then you’re surely eyeing a married man, aren’t you? But, ever tried thinking about why do women perceive married men to be better than single men? Let’s try and dig deeper into the same.

Men often ponder over why women can’t stop drooling over them or flirting with them in spite of knowing that they are married.

Quite strangely, women often fall for married men and start comparing them with the single men around. Studies show that though married men are not inherently better than single men yet women judge them to be better than single men. A married man is taken to have a strange attraction associated with him.

So, what’s it that makes women go weak in their knees when it comes to a married man? Well, it’s nothing but the pure women psyche that goes like this- Women are more sensitive to the choices made by other women i.e. a married man, who is already taken by some other woman has made a commitment to a certain someone and it is this very commitment that attracts other women.

In short, women want men to commit to a long term relationship and that’s what makes a married man highly enviable, so, the next time you start getting hots for a married guy, simply go and find the man (single) who is willing to commit to you and that’ll be the end of your woes.

health is better than wealth:health is wealth

Money matters. Since time immemorial, mankind has always strived to find money sources. Even in the ancient times, money makes and unmakes people. There are many stories of treasure hunts and even up to the current generation, myths about hidden treasures all around the world still circulate.
Mankind has really put greater value on wealth among all other things in the world. Unfortunately, wealth is hard to catch. People know that wealth is something they must work hard for. As people strived harder to amass wealth, there came a new concept about the real value of the word.
Health is wealth. Such is a simple sentence but its sense and meaning is so tremendous and deep. Through the years, in all societies around the world, health has become synonymous and equivalent to the value of wealth.
There is syllogism and analogy between the two different concepts. Health is as valuable as money. That is because without it, you surely would not enjoy anything in life. You would not be able to appreciate the beauty of each day and live up to acknowledge the joys that come to even the simplest encounters with family and friends.
Without health, people would not be able to work productively. Thus, there would be little chances and opportunities for earning and doing jobs. People need to work to be able to generate income. But one cannot work if he is ill and is incapable to do physical activities. Even office jobs entail good health of employees because through experiences and history, people have determined that without good physical condition, the mental state would also be affected.

using public transportation is better than driving. Do you agree with this statement?

The man is in hurry of going to job because it's 9am, so he is driving very fast, then suddenly he finds himself in a heavy traffic. This is the problem of most of the countries. Nobody likes it but it is not a problem which is caused by one or two person; In fact it is because of the whole society. What I am going to say in this essay is that there are 3 main reasons which prove that public transportation is much cheaper, easier and faster for us to use it.

Public transportation is much cheaper than using your own car. When the one using his/her car for going to the job he would pay much more money than who uses of public transportation. Firstly you should spend a lot of money to bye a car then you have to look after it. With out mentioning to other issues including paying for oil and repairing. On the other hand, using public transportation doesn’t have many of these problems.

In adition, most of the time, it is so easy for us to go out with public transportation. Nowadays one of the most important subjects between all countries is traffic and solutions of reducing that. It can be the best way for governments to develop their public transportation and then for all people it would be easier to use it for going anywhere. For example, just imagine, when one day, after you got up and got ready to go to work or university, you’re thinking of going by car or public transportation, but ……just wait a minute and think what will you feel when you are trapped in a heavy traffic. Meanwhile, other people would be easily travelling without any problem related to congestion just because they have opted to use the public transportation.

Furthermore, nowadays public transportation is so fast in comparison to other ways like own car. Besides being cheaper and easier; it is very faster to use public transportation. For example, maybe you have an English class which you have to attend every day, so if you want to go by car every day with these heavy traffics you have to either leave home very soon or be late at the class. In many countries the path of private cars is separated from the buses, as a result when it is a heavy traffic in the main street for private cars, I can be very light traffic for buses and you can get to your place faster.

To sum up, although It seems much better to go every where by own car, yet in fact public transportation is faster, easier and much cheaper to use. By using public transportation we can save much money and make our city seems more beautiful.