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media type="custom" key="26232680""Friendship" by Henry David Thoreau //The Four Loves// by C.S. Lewis "There's No Such Thing As Everlasting Love (According to Science)" by Emily Esfahani Smith "What is Love? Five Theories on the Greatest Emotion of All" by Jim Al-Khalili, Philippa Perry, Julian Baggini, Jojo Moyes, and Catherine Wybourne
 * Thoreau insists that love is key to friendship, just as friendship is a necessity to achieving true love
 * "Love cannot speak, but only thinks and does"
 * "One and one make two, and two are one"
 * "I only know it is, not how or why"
 * Affection accounts for most of human happiness, but is greatly vulnerable
 * Friendship is a deeply appreciative love, and while it is "a lost art", it can result in separation as well
 * Romance is a neutral force, a profound but dangerous experience
 * Charity is the greatest, and most Christian, of loves
 * According to Lewis,  "To love is to be vulnerable"
 * Smith argues that <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> love is an ephemeral feeling, not a long-lasting one
 * <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,Book Antiqua,Palatino,serif;">Mirror neurons, oxytocin, and vagal tone, which make up the " biological love system", prove the above statement
 * <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,Book Antiqua,Palatino,serif;">Smith denies the "love myth" that people have become accustomed to
 * <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,Book Antiqua,Palatino,serif;">Love is made up of of "micro-moments of positivity resonance"
 * <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,Book Antiqua,Palatino,serif;">Love is Chemistry
 * <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype,Book Antiqua,Palatino,serif;">With true love, the brain releases pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, and vasopressin
 * <span style="color: #ce1111; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Al-Khalili concedes that <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> from an evolutionary perspective, love is a survival tool
 * Love has many Guises
 * Philia: Deep but non-sexual intimacy
 * Ludus: Playful affection
 * Pragma: Mature love
 * Agape: Generalized love
 * Philautia: Self love
 * Eros: Sexual passion and desire
 * Love is a Passionate Commitment
 * It requires caring for
 * Love drives all Great Stories
 * It is what drives all relations, and in this can be almost anything
 * Love is Free yet Binds Us
 * It is a paradox, it can hurt as much as it can heal, and often has to simply be experienced rather than defined