Pure Love
See also: MarriageLove is closely related to friendship in that it involves strong interpersonal ties between two or more people. Being in a relationship with someone usually means that they are very close and can confide in each other. Sometimes friendship is considered as pure love, which involves only love and adoration of the friends.
In terms of interpersonal relationships, there are two distinct types of love:
- Platonic love: is a deep and non-romantic connection or friendship between two individuals. It is love in which the sexual element does not enter.
- Romantic love: considered similar to platonic love, but involves sexual elements.
Engaging in a romantic relationship can change the dynamics of a platonic relationship; in the event of a breakup, close friends who become romantically involved may experience difficulty in successfully resuming a comfortable friendship.
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Famous quotes containing the words pure love, pure and/or love:
“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)
“In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,—from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight, and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,—perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)