TRUE
LOVE IS RARE
Love is defined as a strong feeling
of deep affection for somebody or something.
Some
synonyms of love are affection, attachment, fondness, friendship, attraction, and
liking. All these terms do not have exactly the same meanings. For example,
affection is kindly feeling, deep, tender, and constant, but it is less fervent
and ardent than love.
Love is an intense and absorbing emotion. It
causes a person to appreciate, and crave the presence or possession of a person
whom he loves.
Love is not limited by animal passions. It can be the sublimest and holiest spiritual
affection as when you say “I love my mother” or express your belief “God is love.”
True love
is more tender, intense, absorbing, impulsive and passionate than affection. It
is endless, survives all chops and changes, ups and downs. It is eternally loyal, sincere and faithful.
Look at the following sonnet by William
Shakespeare (1564-1616).
“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never
shaken.
It is the star to every wandering
bark,
Whose worth ‘s unknown, although his
height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy
lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass
come;
Love alters not with his bried hours
and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of
doom. -----Sonnet CXVI
In
another sonnet (CXIX) Shakespeare
says:
Ruin’d love, when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more
strong, far greater.
To
conclude , here is a famous quote by the French author Abbe Hugo Felicite
Lamennais (1782-1854):
The
heart of him who truly loves is a
paradise on earth; he has God in himself, for God is love.
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G.R.Kanwal
22 May 2026
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