You ask yourself 'What is love? Am I in love?', when what you should be asking is, 'What is not love?', ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker advises defining love by identifying what is not love rather than what it is.
- In plain terms
- Find out what is not love to understand what love is.
- What can you take from it?
- Define love by exclusion.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is love better defined by presence or absence?
- What actions truly signify love?
Another view
Negative definitions may miss the full positive essence of love.
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