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Love can take many forms from the deepest affection between family and friends to more fleeting pleasures. It is commonly understood as a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment towards others. Love is also considered a virtue that inspires kindness, compassion, and care for others. It facilitates relationships and is central to human social bonding and the continuation of the human species. Ancient Greeks and other cultures have identified multiple kinds of love including familial love, friendship, romantic love, devotion to guests or gods, and more.

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Love can take many forms from the deepest affection between family and friends to more fleeting pleasures. It is commonly understood as a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment towards others. Love is also considered a virtue that inspires kindness, compassion, and care for others. It facilitates relationships and is central to human social bonding and the continuation of the human species. Ancient Greeks and other cultures have identified multiple kinds of love including familial love, friendship, romantic love, devotion to guests or gods, and more.

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Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most

sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure.[1][2] 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 of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and
emotional attachment.[3]
Love is also considered to be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as
"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[4] It may also describe
compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.[5]
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.[6] Love has
been postulated to be a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate
the continuation of the species.[7]
Ancient Greek philosophers identified five forms of love: essentially, familial
love (in Greek, Storge), friendly love or platonic love (Philia), romantic love (Eros), guest love (Xenia)
and divine love (Agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: unrequited
love, infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love. Asian cultures have also
distinguished Ren, Kama, Bhakti, Mettā, Ishq, Chesed, and other variants or symbioses of these
states.[8][9] Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning. 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.

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