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3 Insightful Reads on Love

by Pakhi Rajesh Kumar Dixit

Love is beautiful and it is all things you admire. It is sunshine on a winter morning and a happy song in a sad movie.

You cannot really define what love is or pinpoint why you love someone and when it happened, right? So, to help you out with this feeling called ‘love’, here are 3 insightful reads to devour slowly.

1. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There by Cheryl Strayed
Pages: 368

Life is hard when – your lover cheats on you, a close family member dies, you are out of money and on the brink of being completely broke. But in hindsight, all of it can be pretty good too. You can apply for that job you have always wanted; you can brave yourself up to write your novel you were planning to. Everybody on this planet is connected because all of us have our fair share of losses and gains and accomplishments and heartbreaks and usually in normal circumstances we learn to cope with it, we come up with her own mechanism to save us from that hurt but sometimes a little advice can help a lot.  

Cheryl Strayed has been famous as the ‘Agony Aunt’ on internet for several years now but unlike most of the agony aunts, this book is a fruit of genuine empathy and treasure trove of personal experiences – sometimes happy, sometimes bad but in all a heart-warming gamut. Having successfully won over her own battles, Cheryl finally sat down to collect the advices she has rendered to many sad, anxious, troubled people and turned those into a perfect guide book for those who currently feel a little lost in life. each gemlike correspondence of which the best is collected in this volume she proved to be the perfect guide for those who had got a little lost in life.

2. The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Pages: 112

The Art of Loving is a classic known for the clarity it conveys to thousands of people. Erich Fromm is a renowned psychoanalyst, who sees love as the remedy to all woes and the ultimate need for sustenance. In this book, he covered every aspect of love: romantic love, the love towards family, brotherly love, friendship, the love of God and most importantly self-love. He looks at what love is and from where it first originated, throughout multiple cultures and practices of the world.

Love requires practice, funny to say, but true to develop it into full commitment. We need to find and embrace it.

3.Essays in Love by Alain De Botton
Pages: 224

Essays in Love will be loved by anyone who has been in love and got heartbroken or is currently confused about love. The book documents the entire affair – new beginnings, arguments, chaos and finally heartbreak. The author has carefully and in details cleverly analysed the emotions we have felt before but perhaps have never understood well. This book is a blueprint to help you understand why you feel the way you do and why the other person does or does not.

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