WHAT IS LOVE? xxx?

Question

many people have tried to establish just what is love???
love... is it real, or is it something that we want to feel.. and in wanting to feel love.. is it masked by the idea of being loved in return???
do we trick our mind into saying we are in love simply because we disire to be loved at least once in our life???

Answer 1

There have been a lot of good answers here,
and so I won't try to trump them, but rather
to reitterate some of them, and build upon
what has already been said...
There are different types of love, familial, romantic, etc.
So do remember that.
There is also Divine Love, and Self Love, which should not
be ignored... and if you do not have connection with those
two forms of Love, you will have both a much harder time
in life and a harder time seeing and believing Love.
And so, all forms of Love are connected, thus they are all
talked about as "Love".
I'm imagining you were mostly asking about the Romantic Love
between two people...
In my opinion, one of the biggest problems in the world today is
that most people don't "believe" in "True Love". Choosing
not to "believe" in something really does change our
individual realities... if we choose not to "believe" something
then we also choose not to see it, and thus, in the case
of True Love, not to live it. Which is a sad sad thing.
Some things must be believed to be seen, and True Love
(often symbolised in stories by the Unicorn) is one of them.
If you choose to close yourself off, to not "believe" in True Love,
then you condemn yourself to live through continual emotional
upheavel. If you choose to "believe", then you either have it
or you don't have it, but you don't have to constantly wonder
whether you have it or not.... do you see?
True Love you just know through and through, and so if you
don't know through and through that you have it, then you simply don't.
As for folks tricking themselves into saying they're in Love,
yes, it happens all the time.
Most of them are "In-Love with Love" or simply don't know any
better, because they've chosen not to "believe" in True Love.
I know, I was one of them... before I found my husband.
I learned my lesson. I now KNOW and "believe", and I see,
and I live it.
I only hope that I can spare some others some of the immense confussion I went through because I had been taught that there was no such thing as True Love.
Believe me, it does exsist, and anything else pales in compairasson.

Answer 2

You have a very valid point.
I think the vast majority of people want to be loved so much that they convince themselves that they are in love.
If you do not have respect enough for yourself to nurture love for your own being then you will never have enough to share.
Real love must be an equal and fair exchange, freely given and joyfully accepted. Once you truly love someone then you will take that feeling with you wherever you are, even if you part...

Answer 3

Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self-love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.

Answer 4

Love is not a feeling. Love is an ACTION. Having established that love is a verb is is something that is real. It can be shown and given. We all want to be loved and we all want to love for life would not be fulfilled without it.

Answer 5

To love is to trust completely, whole-heartedly, another human being.

To love is to care more for another than you do for yourself.

Love exists to be given, not taken. To be shared, not hoarded.

Love creates the magic that makes living worthwhile, and the hope of experiencing that magic again is enough to keep us going when we are unloved.

Love is why we are here.

Answer 6

properly, very last time I were given the love letter even as i changed into about 11! It reported: "you're the prettiest woman at school. you're my first actual love. you're amazing." easy and tremendous words, yet I wasn't flattered in any respect: it changed into from the boy i incredibly hated. and that is the point: in love letters you need to placed each thing in easy words, and then it incredibly shows the sensation.

Answer 7

GOD Is Love! (1 John 4: 7-9).....those who are born again (a new) in GOD will demonstrate Real Love!.....

Answer 8

There are 4 types of love:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

Storge - Storgē (from the Greek στοργή) is the word for familial love
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storge

Agape - this word represents divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agap%C4%93

Philia - speaking of a decent friend, except that the friend is also fond of us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philia

Eros - romantic or "sexual love."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28love%29

Please look them up on Wikipedia.

Answer 9

No greater love has no man than to lay down his life for someone else." Jesus Christ our Lord lay down His life for drunks, druggies, prostitutes, do any of us have that great a love?

Answer 10

Perhaps there is no love. Maybe some people just get along better than others, and they imagine it to be love.