Love 1: Key to The Gates of Happiness

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.ย – Oliver Wendell Holmes

What does love mean?ย  The ancient Greeks identified several types.

  • Philautia: the ability to love oneself and be concerned with ones happiness
  • Storge: an empathetic love that exists in families
  • Philia:ย  the fondness found in friendships
  • Eros: romantic, passionate love
  • Agape: open-hearted, unconditional and world-embracing spiritual love

I do believe that existing within these experiences grows our personal heavens on Earth. The opposite ย [intolerance, stinginess, meanness, prejudice, etc.] are like fire and brimstone.

As this year approaches the season that calls for Good Will toward all, Succeed and Soarโ€™s next postings present meditations on love. In the meantime, share a favorite love experience. Comment below.

A funny [and surprising] 5-minute video about trying to make a blind date work Click picture to view.

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Which LOVE quote is matched to the right movie or television show?
  1. โ€œI believe that we can be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart.โ€ย โ€”ย Titanic
  2. โ€œYou are the perfect verse over a tight beat.โ€ย โ€”ย ย Brown Sugar
  3. โ€œAnd Iโ€™d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, Iโ€™d find you and Iโ€™d choose you.โ€ย โ€”Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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“Love Seed v4” (c) Sandra Gould Ford. Click on image to see full picture.

Five versions of my โ€œLove Seedโ€ Illustrated Wisdom art have been created with Adobe Photoshop. See them in upcoming posts. Support and encourage Succeed and Soar. Purchase the art as prints, ready-to-display canvas or framed.ย Visit gallery.

 

 

 

 

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Quiz Answers

“I believe that we can be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart.”ย โ€” [Television]ย ย Meredith Grey,ย Grey’sย Anatomy

“You are the perfect verse over a tight beat.” โ€” [Movie]ย Andre Ellis,ย Brown Sugar

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”ย โ€” [Television]ย The Vampire Diaries

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Sandra Gould Ford is an author, educator and former steelworker who presents arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. She belongs to the Authorโ€™s Guild and Science Fiction Writers of America and is a former member of the American Society of Media Photographers. For more information, visit her web site: SandraGouldFord.com.

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