The above is Google's definition of the word February 14th is always dedicated too. But what is yours? Many writers, painters, speakers, and common people have tackled the idea of love- what it feels like, what it looks like, how it is created.
But not one of these people are ever right. Love is different for each human, and whether your love is for your spouse, for music, for literature, or for your country, everyone has experienced this "feeling of deep affection" at least once in their lifetime. At least, I'd like to hope so.
Maybe that is really what Valentine's day is all about. Maybe it's about extending our love. Extending it past the ones we hold dear, but to those we normally don't talk to - the ones we sigh in traffic with, the ones we pass in the hallways, or the ones we mumble to in the grocery check-out line.
On this cold and brisk February night, I sit here hoping that you spent your day lovingly. That you spent it with kindness, with an open-mind, and an open-heart. I hope that you extended your love, and if you didn't, there is always next year.
The following are some of my favorite quotes/passages about love, and I hope you love them too:
A friend loves at all times. Proverbs 17:17
"You do not love someone because they are perfect, you love them in spite that they are not." -Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
“Do not pity the dead Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.” -J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"Look after my heart- I've left it with you." -Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it."
- Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
"We love the things we love for what they are." -Robert Frost
"Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you." -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
-Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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