The One

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And also, I think that loving someone is a huge sacrifice. You have to be willing to open yourself and accept things, whether you want to or not. And yes, you have to be willing to love that person more than yourself. When you can open yourself and your heart to a person, you know that you have something special. And when you love that person more than yourself, you know that it is definitely something special.

In rational love, you do not love the other person 'more' than yourself, simply you love yourself and this person has such value to your life that you cannot conceive of your life without the pleasure that this person provides you. The idea of life without this person is a life less valuable, so you are desiring of this person for selfish reasons. So in essence it is selfish to love, because you are in love with the effect this person has on your sense of life. And man will risk life and limb for those things which he loves, for they provide his life the value of living, and life without them is not worth living.