what is love?

Answer 1

Simple Definitions of love:

* A strong positive emotion of regard and affection.
* Any object of warm affection or devotion.
* Having a great affection or liking for.
* A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction.
* To be enamored with.

Love is like the seeds of life,
To root is full of pain and strife.
But to grow it’s like a great Oak tree,
Straight and strong for eternity.
Love is what I offer you,
Steadfast, calm and oh, so true!
Love is life between two who shares,
A life between two who really cares.

“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Mark Twain

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
Voltaire

“Ever has it been that love knows not it’s own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Love me, Sweet, with all thou art, feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the lightest part, Love me in full being.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.”
Salmon P. Chase

“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.”
Rollo May

“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream into reality.”
Theodor Reik

“In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.”
Philip Larkin

“The first great steps is to like yourself enough to pick someone who likes you, too.”
Jane O’Reilly

“I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one’s being…”
George Sand

“What is love? One name for it is knowledge.”
Robert Penn Warren

“When I look at you every aged phrase is new, and there are moments when it seems I’ve married one of Shakespeare’s dreams.”
Ogden Nash

“In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Loving can cost a lot, but not loving always costs more…”
Merle Shain

“If you are in love…that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.”
John Steinbeck

“Love is the tact of every good, the only warmth, the only peace.”
Delmore Schwartz

“I marry you, morning by morning, day by day, night by night…”
John Ciardi

“Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding…And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.”
Spencer W. Kimball

“Love is the river of life in the world.”
Henry Ward Beecher

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Victor Hugo

“To live without loving is not really to live.”
Moliere

“Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Romans 13:9

“Let all that you do be done with love.”
1 Corinthians 16:14

“Love whole-heartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
David Steindl Rast

“Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.”
Thomas Kinkade

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand

“Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.”
Thomas Kinkade

“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.”
Og Mandino

“He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in!”
Edwin Markham

“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art.”
St. Francis De Sales

“The first duty of love is to LISTEN.”
Paul Tillich

“Am I united with my friend in heart, what matters if our place be wide apart?”
Anwar-I-Suheili, Persian Poet

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh the thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
George Eliot

“The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman – any woman- with beautiful legs.”
Marlene Dietrich

“We can do no great things – only small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa

“Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
Victor Hugo

“Believe, my heart will ever prove; faithful unto thee my love.”
Valentine, 19th Cen.

“Fluttering heart doth feel love’s smart.”
Valentine, 19th Cen.

“Love conquers all.”
Virgil

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” Mother Teresa

“Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Whoso loves / Believes the impossible.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All mankind love a lover.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

““There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.”
John 1 4:18

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love - woman like to be a man’s last romance.” Oscar Wilde

“Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Tennyson

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare

“…love has never known a law / Beyond its own sweet will.”
John Greenleaf Whittier

“Love is blind.” Anonymous

“All you need is love.” The Beatles

L is for the way u look at me
O is for the only one i see
V is for very very extraordinary
E is for even more than anyone that you adore.

i sit in the park waiting for you
all alone i sit and then i remember that you wont show
for it was only a day ago
you told me that it was all over
and left
it broke my heart and only you can pick the pieces up and put it together
but you wont
you cant
my life was an unbeliavable dream with you
but now i know ive got to face the reality on my own
and i used to think that fairytales were real
now i just wish that they were


WELL U SEE EVERYONE HAS GOT DIFFERENT DEFINITION
BUT FOR ME LOVE IS IMMENSE FEELING WHICH MAKES UR LIFE .... IT MAKES U STRONGER ... TO BEAR ANY PAIN SO...LOVE IS POWER ...... IN ANOTHER WORD LOVE IS LIFE

Answer 2

love
n.
A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.

Sexual passion.
Sexual intercourse.
A love affair.

An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.

A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.

An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.

A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language.

The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.

Love Mythology. Eros or Cupid.
often Love Christianity. Charity.

Sports. A zero score in tennis.

Answer 3

According to Robert Sternberg's research, "Love" is an emotion consisting of three components: intimacy, passion & committment.

Intimacy, the feeling close and connected to someone (developed through sharing and very good communications over time). Intimacy is what makes you want to share and offer emotional and material support to each other.
-Intimacy alone is Liking (true friendship without passion or long-term commitment)


Passion, the feeling physically aroused and attracted to someone. Passion is what makes you feel "in love" and is the feeling most associated with love. It also rises quickly and strongly influences and biases your judgment.
-Passion alone is Infatuation (passionate, obsessive love at first sight without intimacy or commitment)

Commitment, pledging to your self and each other to strengthen the feelings of love and to actively maintain the relationship. Commitment is what makes you want to be serious, have a serious relationship and promise to be there for the other person if things get tough.
-Commitment alone is Empty Love (decision to love another without intimacy or passion)

Romantic Love: Intimacy & Passion, no Commitment
-Lovers physically and emotionally attracted to each other but without commitment
-“As in a summer romance”

Companionate Love: Intimacy & Commitment, but no Passion
-Long-term committed friendships or a marriage in which the passion has faded
-I love you but I’m not IN love with you

Fatuous Love: Passion & Commitment, but no Intimacy
-Commitment based on passion with without time for intimacy to develop
-Shallow relationship such as a whirlwind courtship

Consummate Love: A complete love consisting of all three components

Answer 4

Love is Red like Red Rose.

Answer 5

My defination of love is if 2 people like one another for thier personallity, traits, and sometimes looks but looks dont always matter. i dont really belive in love at first sight but some peope do though.

Answer 6

Lingering
On
Venomous
Evil

Answer 7

love is a feeling as well as a action dear.

Answer 8

love is "like a sickness and its cure together"

--from 'Shakespeare in Love'

Answer 9

l - lake of happiness
o - ocean of joy
v - valley of life
e - end of sadness

love is wen u wanna live and die for the same person -

;) ashika

Answer 10

love is being comfortable enough with the peeps you are with to be yourself. love it being comfortable enough with yourself to allow others to love you just as you are. love is lovin them just as they are. love never fails.

Answer 11

love is love affection , caring , sex ,,,,,,,,,,,,, you don't know the simple means of love , who are you ? little child ? pls find in dictionary , ok .