Love is one of many possible emotions. The Wiki article at the following link is a decent intoruction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions
Some books you might look at:
The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell YouJun 1, 2010
by Karla McLaren
Name That Emotion: A Mindful Approach to Understanding Your Feelings and Reducing StressJul 15, 2015
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character ExpressionMay 6, 2012
by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
by Erin Olivo
Love is one of many possible emotions. The Wiki article at the following link is a decent intoruction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions
Some books you might look at:
The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell YouJun 1, 2010
by Karla McLaren
Name That Emotion: A Mindful Approach to Understanding Your Feelings and Reducing StressJul 15, 2015
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character ExpressionMay 6, 2012
by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
by Erin Olivo
Emotion would be an outcome, and a collective reaction of self toward a phenomeno, no matter for a human or a concept. But planning to make others happy could be categorized as a strategy and intrument, to succeed on its way to end-result. Of course, could it be a positive and wise strategy, or not (plot), is a separate avenue to study.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Whereas, your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Dear Shahnaz, according to philosopher John Armstrong —The Conditions of Love. The Philosophy of Intimacy, New York, Norton (2003)—, love is a behavior, a conduct, an action, a doing. "Though he soberly acknowledges the many ways love can collapse in despair, Armstrong holds out substantive hope that--when cultivated with kindness and humility--love can endure," and I quote from the short review offered by Amazon Books. I have carefully read Armstrong more than once and find it splendidly researched, argued and rich in examples. Armstrong is evidently an optimist and believes love can endure beyond the ephemeral nature of emotions. To endure, love must not be an emotion, but a conduct.
On the other hand, most commentators consider love to be an emotion, in which case there would be no "difference" between love and emotion: emotion would be a category and love would be an item within the category.
Emotions do not have a steady, bulletproof definition as witnessed by the following essay by Kleinginna and Kleinginna:
http://www.emotional.economics.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/Kleinginna_1981.pdf
I believe that your question is not well framed, it is not rigorous enough to gather deep reflections, but only personal experiences, as you yourself offered above. Maybe you should restate the question to better profit from it.
Best regards, Lilliana
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