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When God Writes Your Love Story, first published in the United States in 1999, [1] is the third book written by Eric and Leslie Ludy, an American married couple. [2] Like the Ludys' previous two books, His Perfect Faithfulness: The Story of our Courtship (1996) [3] and Romance God's Way (1997), [4] its major themes are romance and Christianity; it tells the story of the authors' first meeting ...
Love. Eros ( / ˈɪərɒs /, US: / ˈɛrɒs, irɒs, - oʊs /; from Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) 'love, desire') is a concept in ancient Greek philosophy referring to sensual or passionate love, from which the term erotic is derived. Eros has also been used in philosophy and psychology in a much wider sense, almost as an equivalent to "life ...
t. e. Schadenfreude ( / ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a borrowed word from German; the English word for it is ...
The History of Love. The History of Love: A Novel is the 2005 novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss .The book was a 2006 finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for fiction. [ 1] An excerpt from the novel was published in The New Yorker in 2004 under the title The Last ...
Maitrī ( Sanskrit; Pali: mettā) means benevolence, [ 1] loving-kindness, [ 2][ 3] friendliness, [ 3][ 4] amity, [ 4] good will, [ 5] and active interest in others. [ 4] It is the first of the four sublime states ( Brahmaviharas) and one of the ten pāramīs of the Theravāda school of Buddhism . The cultivation of benevolence ( mettā ...
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The word onanism is not based on the biblical story of Onan itself but on an interpretation of that biblical story, nor is the word onanism found in any form in the biblical texts. Thus the etymological connection of onanism (in the sense of masturbation) with Onan's name is misleading. [62] [47] The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines ...
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. [ 1] 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.