Love

==Impersonal==
People can express love towards things other than humans, this can range from expressing a strong liking of something, such as "I love popcorn" or that something is essential to one's identity, such as "I love being an actor".<ref>{{Citation |last=Helm |first=Bennett |title=Love |date=2021 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/love/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |edition=Fall 2021 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref>

People can have a profound dedication and immense appreciation for an object, principle, or objective, thereby experiencing a sense of love towards it. For example, compassionate outreach and volunteer workers' "love" of their cause may sometimes be born not of interpersonal love but impersonal love, [[altruism]], and strong spiritual or political convictions.{{r|Fromm}} 

People can also "love" material objects, animals, or activities if they invest themselves in bonding or otherwise identifying with those things. If sexual passion is also involved, then this feeling is called [[paraphilia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Paraphilia |url=http://health.discovery.com/centers/sex/sexpedia/paraphilia.html|website=DiscoveryHealth |access-date=16 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212105714/http://health.discovery.com/centers/sex/sexpedia/paraphilia.html |archive-date=12 December 2007 }}</ref>