What is LOVE?

Question

what is love?

it's an age old query. answer!

Answer 1

Love is an emotion of intense attraction to, care for, or identification with persons, place(s) or thing(s); a desire to be close to, move and construct its object. This can include love for one's self.

However, love has several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something that one would die for (patriotism, pair-bonding). And in contrast to the definition at the top, frequently people use the verb "love" to indicate want or desire for themselves as opposed to for another. For example: "I love ice cream," or even "I love her/him," does not refer to desiring wellness for ice cream, and it may not refer to desiring wellness for her/him, but rather to the desire for ice cream or for her/him felt by the speaker. The word also frequently indicates elevated appreciation or admiration: "I love that artist." Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. As an experience usually felt by a person for another person, it is commonly considered impossible to describe. Dictionaries tend to define love as deep affection or fondness.[1] In colloquial use, according to polled opinion, the most favoured definitions of love include the words:[2]

1. life - someone or something for which you would give your life.
2. care - someone or something about which you care more than yourself.
3. friendship - favoured interpersonal associations or relationships.
4. union - a synergistic connection, as in the perfect union of two souls.
5. family - people related via common ancestry, religion, or race, etc.

The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[3] Others maintain that love exists but is undefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature, etc. Perhaps due to its emotional primacy, love is one of the most common themes in art.

Answer 2

This is a poem that I had written one day, to remind my self of what Love Truly Is!!!!

LOVE IS........

Love Is The Admiration That Will Last Until Death Do We Part!
Love Is The Promises That We Share Right From The Very Start!
Love is The Emotions That Will Always Stay In Our Hearts!
Love Is A Bond That Remains Deep With-In!
Love Is The Desires We Share From Beginning To End!
Love Is The True Friendship That We Will Forever Share!
Love Is An Eternity, That Can Never Be Despaired!
Love Is A Precious Gift From Our Holy Lord!
When We Endure His Precious Gift,
We Are Always Keeping Our Hearts & Minds
Open To Our Holy Lord,
In The Beautiful Heavens
Up Above
Forever More!

AMEN!!!!!

This Is What True Love Means To Me!!!!

Answer 3

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.

Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both and art and fortunate accident.

Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.

I still do not believe in it? Hmmm...

Answer 4

Love is the glue that holds the universe together. It's what makes us keep having babies even though they're expensive, noisy, etc. :) Love is what keeps the memory of those who have passed alive. Love is what gives life meaning. God must have loved the world when he made it so beautiful. I see universal love in the beauty we glimpse through a telescope or a microscope. Without love, there is nothing.

Answer 5

love is..

1. giving without expecting a return
2. caring
3. 24/7 thinking of ur loved one
4. knowing what they need before they ask
5. alot of TRUST
6. Frindship
7. UNDERSTANDING
8. making them feel soo special
9. for the world ur love is someone but for u ur love is the world
10. Protecting
11. standing for them when they really need someone
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n. Love is everything and everywere...
u can just feel it... so fall in love as soon as u can

Answer 6

There is no real answer to this question but what I have learned of what love is to me and that is the word LOVE itself holds the answer.......

(L)isten: and validate them by hearing and empathizing.
(O)verlook: their minor character flaws as they will overlook yours.
(V)alue: who they are and what they mean to you.
(E)xpress: how you love them not just with words but with actions.

Answer 7

love is me coz im a true one right here i dont lie i play my own game no lies no bs no **** just the real thing that ive learned

Answer 8

love is life..