How I Met Your Mother2005
Jeanette Peterson:
Yes! How long have you been hung up on Robin? Eight years? And you’re still killing yourself to fetch dumb little trinkets for her. That’s crazy! That’s more than crazy.I don’t think there’s a word for what that is!
Ted:
Actually, there is a word for that. It’s «love.» I’m in love with her, okay? If you’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you, it’s love! And when you love someone, you just, you… you don’t stop, ever. Even when people roll their eyes or call you crazy. Even then. Especially then! You just — you don’t give up! Because if I could give up… if I could just, you know, take the whole world’s advice and-and move on and find someone else, that wouldn’t be love. That would be… that would be some other disposable thing that is not worth fighting for.
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Is there a word for the kind of love that is in between platonic love and romantic love. It’s shared by incredibly close friends, it can be as strong as romantic love in feeling but it’s platonic in nature. It does not require sexual attraction, but sexual attraction may be involved to some degree.
Edit: For the sake of discussion, let’s assume there is a degree of sexual attraction involved, so it can’t be just a strong platonic love by definition.
Edit 2: Solving solution — a redefinition of platonic love in my head to mean a passionate love that is non-erotic and with a lack of any desire for sex to actually happen (but can still be sexually attracted to one another). The lack of any desire for sex might, for example, be because you may already have a lover or because you don’t want to risk the underlying friendship, which you value more than an actual relationship.
That and platonic soulmates — kinda the same thing
Experience the overwhelming feeling of falling in love through these Love Actually quotes we’ve compiled for you.
Love Actually is a Christmas-themed romantic comedy movie directed by Richard Curtis.
It features an impressive cast composed of world-renowned British actors and actresses.
With it being a megahit, it’s no surprise that we got a sequel, Red Nose Day Actually, even more than a decade after the first movie’s release.
We all experience love in different ways, and Love Actually sought to convey that sentiment to the world.
It plunged into multiple love stories of various characters. And, while you may think they’re all separate stories, they were all interrelated somehow with the help of the movie’s magical storytelling.
No doubt, Love Actually is a movie that will open your eyes to what true love entails.
Here are some of the best quotes that we’re sure you’ll enjoy!
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1. “To me, you are perfect.” – Mark
2. “Love, actually, is all around.” – David
3. “True love lasts a lifetime.” – Karen
4. “Tell her that you love her. You’ve got nothing to lose and you’ll always regret it if you don’t.” – Daniel
5. “I realized that Christmas is the time to be with the people you love.” – Billy
6. “I love that word, ‘relationship.’ Covers all manner of sins, doesn’t it? I fear that this has become a bad relationship.” – David
7. “All I want for Christmas is you.” – Judy
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8. “But the truth is, I’m in love and there’s nothing I can do about it.” – Sam
9. “Much as it grieves me to say it, it might be that the people I love is, in fact—you.” – Billy
10. “And my wasted heart will love you until you look like this.” – Mark
11. “Beautiful Aurelia, I’ve come here with a view of asking you to marriage me. I know I seem like an insane person—because I hardly know you—but sometimes things are so transparent, they don’t need evidential proof. And I will inhabit here, or you can inhabit with me in England.” – Jamie
12. “It’s a terrible mistake, Chubs, but you turn out to be the f*cking love of my life. And to be honest, despite all my complaining, we have had a wonderful life.” – Billy
13. “I love you even when you’re sick and look disgusting.” – Jaime
14. “I’ll be hanging around the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed.” – Mia
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15. “When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge—they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love.” – David
16. “Often, it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there: fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends.” – David
17. “The general wisdom is that, in the end, there isn’t just one person for each of us.” – Daniel
18. “A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward I will be prepared to be much stronger.” – David
19. “General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere.” – David
20. “Christmas is a time for people with someone they love in their lives.” – Jamie
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21. Daniel: “Well, I’m a little relieved.”
Sam: “Why?”
Daniel: “Well, you know—I thought it might be something worse.”
Sam: “Worse than the total agony of being in love?”
Daniel: “Oh. No, you’re right. Yeah, total agony.”
22. “Girls love musicians, don’t they? Even the really weird ones get girlfriends.” – Sam
23. “The thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end.” – Sam
24. “Thank you, sir. I did have an awful premonition that I was gonna f*ck up on the first day. Oh, piss it!” – Natalie
25. “When I was young and successful, I was greedy and foolish, and now I’m left with no one. Wrinkled and alone.” – Billy
26. “Christmas shopping, never an easy or pleasant task.” – Harry.
27. “Would you stay, knowing life would always be a little bit worse? Or would you cut and run?” – Karen
28. Judy: “I can’t understand why he’s not married, though.”
John: “You know the type. He’s married to his job.”
29. “I don’t want something I need. I want something pretty.” – Mia
30. “Life is full of interruptions and complications.” – Karl
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31. “At Christmas, you tell the truth.” – Mark
32. “There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?” – Karen
33. “Let’s get the sh*t kicked out of us by love!” – Sam
34. “It’s my favorite time of day, driving you.” – Jamie
35. “Aren’t you a bit young to be in love?” – Daniel
36. “I’ll give you anything you ask for as long as it’s not something I don’t want to give.” – The US President
37. “I’m not so sure politics and dating really go together.” – David
38. “Well, I just thought maybe the time had come to do something about it.” – Harry
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39. “Get a grip; people hate sissies. No one’s ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.” – Karen
40. “Invite him out for a drink and then, after about 20 minutes, casually drop into the conversation the fact that you’d like to marry him and have lots of sex and babies.” – Harry
41. “Definitely go for England, girl. You’ll meet Prince William—then you can marry him instead.” – Sophia
42. “Option one: ask her out. Option two: become her friend. Option three: kidnap her and keep her tied up in your room until she agrees to marry you.” – Daniel
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43. Harry: “Tell me, exactly, how long it is that you’ve been working here?”
Sarah: “Two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, what, two hours?”
Harry: “And how long have you been in love with Karl, our enigmatic chief designer?”
Sarah: “Ahm, two years, seven months, three days, and I suppose an hour and thirty minutes.”
44. “No, I’m wise. Stateside I am Prince William without the weird family.” – Colin
45. “We need Kate, and we need Leo. And we need them now.” – Daniel
46. “American girls would seriously dig me with my cute British accent.” – Collin
47. “The trouble with being the Prime Minister’s sister is, it does put your life into a rather harsh perspective. What did my brother do today? He stood up and fought for his country. And what did I do? I made a paper maché lobster head.” – Karen
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48. “We may be a small country, but we’re a great one, too. The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, The Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter. David Beckham’s right foot—David Beckham’s left foot, come to that.” – David
49. “Hello, David. I mean, Sir. Sh*t, I can’t believe I’ve just said that. And now I’ve gone and said ‘sh*t’ twice. Oh, I’m so sorry Sir.” – Natalie
50. “Jamie’s friends are so good-looking! He never tells me this. I think, maybe now I have made the wrong choice? Picked the wrong Englishman?” – Aurelia
Did You Find These Quotes Helpful in Defining the Meaning of Love?
Love takes on many different forms, shapes, and sizes. This is shown by various love stories told throughout the movie. Through them, Love Actually was able to demonstrate that love knows no age, gender, or language—it triumphs over all.
Yes, one of the most challenging things to define in life is love. Every individual interprets this emotion differently, making it hard to pinpoint what it entails. But, love envelopes the world with a positive and warm feeling.
Though we most relate this emotion to romantic relationships, love goes way beyond that. You can love your family, friends, pets and other animals, the rest of humanity, and more.
“Love is all around,” is the striking message Love Actually shared with the world. Love is everywhere, and we just have to open our eyes and see that it comes from all directions. After all, love is what makes this world go round.
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Are you looking for a word that is stronger than ‘love’ to say to your partner?
Do you think there’s an alternative word that’ll describe your feelings better?
Maybe you can’t think of the perfect word to use?
If so, you’re in the right place, because we have listed five fantastic alternatives to use.
However, before we explore what these words are, I want to share an important story.
Throughout my twenties, I was stuck in relationships where we weren’t really sure if we ‘loved’ each other.
Looking back, this was mostly my fault.
I wasn’t really doing enough to make a lasting impression on these men. Within a few months, they’d get bored of me and leave.
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Read on for our five alternatives to ‘love’.
‘Love’ as a descriptive word is powerful but sometimes misused — it seems to convey different things to different people and I think can be rather generic. Is love suffering from word exhaustion?
I think the word ‘love’ is often used when there is a better, more precise alternative. Stop bandying love around! Here are my choices for your romantic vocabulary which might just hit the mark better than love, actually.
1. Lust
Let’s get physical! Initial attraction is usually a physical sensation and the science is there to prove it.
Attraction is chemical and its all in the mind, regulated by the hypothalamus in the brain which controls the sex hormones. Now you understand why that perfect match on Tinder just didn’t excite you in the slightest when you met. There was no chemistry.
Freud believed that sex drive was the most powerful governing force in the life of the human being. So when we say love at first sight, are we actually referring to something chemical and should we be saying, lust at first sight? The pink haze of love is seen firmly through rose-tinted glasses. Some pundits believe that the concept of love at first sight is retrospective, the early encounters in people’s minds, a warm interpretation colored by reminiscence.
Lust is such an onomatopoeic word though. It might be a word you use to describe your feelings to a third party, not directly to the one you actually lust after. “If they substituted the word ‘Lust’ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.” Thank you, Sylvia Plath for that truism.
2. Affection
Affection is a subtle word, bypassed these days for louder, more vivid sentiments. But the subtlety of affection can make it the perfect bon mot on the right occasion.
Affection conveys feelings of warmth, depth and an intimacy created by a deep underlying love that has matured like a fine wine. Affection is the ultimate expression of love and a deep love that endures the trials and tribulations of life.
Affection is not so much a word you might use but us borne out by demonstrable actions.
Affection can be the smallest but most significant token. Barack and Michelle Obama always displayed their affection for each other publicly, a clear demonstration of the strength of their relationship and a deep, powerful love. Now say you can’t make time – if the former President of the USA can then you can!
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A thoughtful gift doesn’t have to be expensive, how about always giving your partner your full attention when it is something that matters to them and my personal favorite, touch. Just a casual brush of the hand or stroke of the cheek or a ‘for no apparent reason’ text or email.
These little touches, literally, won’t cost you anything in terms of time or money. Affection resonates, it is the glue that bonds two people together. Relate, the marriage guidance people, call it ‘love language’ and emphasize how important it is to any relationship.
3. Desire
This word is my personal favorite. I just can’t say ‘desire’ without injecting a tone of voice and resonance that wouldn’t’ sound out of place in a television audition for a costume drama. You know the type of thing, smoldering looks, provocative bodices and heaving bosoms.
Desire speaks volumes in an understated yet powerful language. It is more comprehensive and multi-faced than lust. Desire suggests both a mental and physical engagement, a sublimation of all the senses and emotions, is desire the herald of true and meaningful love?
The word ‘desire’ conveys a strength that ‘love’ also just one syllable cannot. Desire is often combined with adjectives such as ‘burning’ or ‘powerful’. Desire relates to both an emotional and physical connection, an all-encompassing overwhelming emotion. George Bernard Shaw said, “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire.”
Desire or Desiree believe it or not used to be a popular choice as a girl’s name. Perhaps more commonly seen in the States than in the UK, this possibly harks back to the popularity of the name amongst the Puritans of New England. And you thought it was just the name of a type of potato or an American streetcar!
4. Passion
La Grande Passion! For the liqueur connoisseurs amongst you, this might hark back to the later decades of the last century and a vague memory of a select tipple from the makers of Grande Marnier and Cherry Marnier. And the title has also been used by Andy Warhol rather disappointingly to depict a painting of that very liqueur rather than something more romantic. Both, it would seem, command a very high price but what does ‘la grande passion’ convey in the true meaning of this phrase?
Passion is not just used in the context of love but has a real connection to suffering so perhaps an anguished love. In religious terms, Christians refer to the Passion of Christ, a love so great for mankind that he gave up his life. Passion means self-sacrificing possibly even pain, love so powerful that it hurts. The derivation of the word comes from the Latin, pati, which means to suffer, to endure and in modern parlance, the use of ‘passion’ has moved away from this heartfelt sense of anguish into something a little more limited. There is a distinct vein of madness in real passion as coined by William Wordsworth, the English romantic poet, in his ballad, ‘Strange fits of passion have I known’. Passion implies a temporary suspension of sanity and reality, a momentary blindness. 5
5. Ardor
Perhaps in the sequence of phases, ardor should sit before lust and after desire. Ardor implies a sense of earnestness, a zeal, an intensity to pursue and to woo. There are a fervency and pace about ardor which makes the word ‘love’ seem rather static in comparison.
Ardor might apply to the early stages of a love affair, the heady ascendency of the chase and early engagement before the deep plunge into the tumult of a really passionate affair.
Ardor is a rather old-fashioned word, both emotional and emotive and seems to sit alongside, ‘amour’ which is French for love and ‘arbor’ which is used to represent a peaceful, shaded area in a garden where lovers might meet. Arbors have become very popular at weddings, particularly ceremonies taking place in the great outdoors where there can be a lack of physical focus or centre. Even couples getting married in church may opt for an arbor at their wedding reception, to act as a focal point for photographs and when guests gather.
I guess the thing about ardor is that it doesn’t have to mean love in a romantic context although this is where it is usually employed. Ardor can mean zeal or enthusiasm for a cause that has nothing to do with affairs of the heart. Because of this, ardor might suggest a disconnected love, an unrequited affection that is not even known about, a totally anonymous devotion. It has connotations of reverence and admiration which indicate a love on a higher plane.
Someone commented to me that ardor is merely a sub-division of love, a word that describes a type of love that is already present. Never has the ardor of young love been captured more effectively than by William Shakespeare in his famous play, Romeo and Juliet the purity of which is depicted in savage contrast to the tragedy which unfolds later.
Perhaps ardor is just descriptive of a type of love therefore or a characteristic of a love developing between two people.
Conclusion
Being a bit of a word snob, I have an inherent distaste of using the wrong word in a particular context. I believe that the word ‘love’ is overused, devalued in word currency when a better selection could convey more accurately what you feel. Hasn’t the word ‘love’ become just a bit passe?
There are different phases of love, the chemical lust followed by overwhelming desire, the almost tangible pain of a deep passion and the grounded affection of a meaningful and established love. These words all convey more appropriately the different chapters of love. Perhaps you can think of a better word?. Add your comments below and share with your friends to see what they think. ‘Love’ is a collective term, there are far better individual choices within cupid’s bucket.
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