What is 'Love'?

Question

There are many views, opinions and definitions of Love.
In your opinion what is true love ?

Thanks in advance for your answers that will significantly broaden my intellectual horizons.

What are the natural attributes of love ?

Like what one normally does when one is in love with someone ? What actions or inactions usually imply strong or ture love ?

Does Love need to be conveyed to the other ?

Does Love necessarily be reciprocated by the one whom you love ?

Can one forget true love ?

Answer 1

All I can say is you need love. You need the pain that heartbreak gives, you need the joy that blindlove gives. Blind love is falling in love and not caring about anything but the emotion within.And the last question, can you forget true love, the answer is no. True love exists once in your whole lifetime. You will know when it reaches you. If you are able to forget that feeling, those thoughts that accompanied you throughout that time of lovesickness, then it wasn't true love. True love is unique. And sadly, we don't see it or enjoy it until it's too late. Then there are some of us who are cursed and when they are most in love, they get hurt badly. I'll continue this in just a moment....
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For example, I loved someone just lately. Was it true love? I think so. It was amazing because this person, I'd never met him. He was just an IM buddy and I ended up falling in love. What was weird is I would dream him (before I even knew what he looked like) and somehow I would appear in his room. We tested this once and it was really freaky because I told him a lot about his room. And it was all correct. He lives in Fort Wayne Indiana. I live in a little town near FunkyTown TX (Fort Worth). We had never met. I had never seen a picture of him. I had never seen a picture of his house. Nothing. Yet he could dream me and I could dream him. The relationship we had ended sadly because of something he said that made me sad. However, as much as I try, I can't forget how I felt about him. In a way, I'm glad because many people wander throughout their lives searching for true love and I have already experienced it.
Yeah, I don't know if that answers your question, though... In short:
True love is something unique, desired by many, that, after experiencing, the emotions that came with it are there for the rest of your life.

Answer 2

Love such a broad term but I have come to believe that love is not an intuition love is not just a feeling you get and love is not just a symbol! I believe love is a distinct synchronization of ones total being. We are meant to love built to love and we do. I think love TRUE love is a complete embodiment of all the things we are put together and when you find that person that makes all the elements within come alive then that My dear is a soul mate a true piece to love within that was not yet complete with out that missing part. Something like that I guess. Good luck hope you were enlightened

Answer 3

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and to be loved in return." -- Moulin Rouge. One of my favorite movies; a love story in fact. The main character whose love has died, recites this quote at the beginning and end of the movie.
Love is a truely beautiful thing. It is true that one never forgets their first love because everything is all the more magical the first time. I could go on and on forever on this question, but I'll keep it short. Love is greatest emotion ever felt, it is a perfect combination of happyness and despair, pain, and invincibility. Love is not only the amazing feeling you get inside, it's also the pain and sadness that comes along with it. You have never truely been in love until you've lost your soulmate and realize what they were worth to you.
When you're in love you can't survive without the other person. You need them. You dream about them and can't get them out of your head. You don't care about anything else, you just want to be with them, to lie your head in their lap and cry because you love them so much.
And then you loose them. And world flips. You feel sick to your stomach and sink to your knees because your heart is crying and breaking into pieces. And you can't do anything about it. You can't imagine your world without them, and yet you are surving and you keep going but you don't want to. You just want to die so you don't have to live with the memories and the endless thoughts... But you can't, and it's tourtering you. Nothing seems right, everything is twisted and deformed, and you know if you could just see their face everything would be okay...

Answer 4

There are many different views yes. Love is fluid however. Peoples views on love change depending on who they are with. However one ideal I have had that has seemed to work out okay. Love is respect, and companionship. Someone who helps you acheive your dreams by just being on the same path.

However I feel that people try and extend themselves too much for others and end up unhappy because their paths in life sperate and they are unwilling to accept it, so someone faulters and loses sight of their dreams, thus ruins the happiness that was in their lives.

Answer 5

True love is the love for your children. It's instinctive love, it's to the bone love, it's love you can't shake and it's so unconditional that it goes to your very core. It's the most euphoric feeling in the universe.
Romantic love is conditional. You love someone that way when they make you feel great. You like how they are with you. If they were to prefer the company of someone else to yours, if they forget your birthdays and anniversaries, if they stop doing anything for you, the love fades away. the love of a child is FOREVER.... ;o)

Answer 6

I don't know how to define it, I would only know how to describe it. Like when your heart quickens and your breath shortens when you get within moments of a kiss. You can breath them in and make your whole body melt. Yearning to be in their presence drives you insane. Wanting to know what amazing things might come out of their mouth next. Knowing that even if you never get to spend the rest of your life with this person it's worth just having been a part of theirs for however much time you can steal. Where just thinking about this person can bring you close to orgasm. Maybe I've only experienced lust, but I wouldn't trade that lust for all the innocent happiness in the world.

Answer 7

LOVE it's a fine 'LUST which is the hardest and the last thing on earth we would be able to 'FREE' from it.
It takes us more than one life time to be free from it.

ps, some time, some people love someone just so intense and so long, or being too much attached to that person then they thought that it's 'TRUE LOVE'

and some people never have given true love to anybody,but some people who is very kind and generous but unlucky have given true love to the 'wrong' person or to those who never love anyone.
some couple loving each other too much, and EXPECT much from each other....noticed that these couple never have last long love.
but some couple 'staying with kind and generous to each other rather love and lust, then their relationship in others view is 'true love' and they become 'soul mate'

Answer 8

Love is a giift to be shared between souls celebrating the beauty of life.

Answer 9

Love is patient; love is kind. Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs, it is not snobbish. Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries. Love does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth. There is no limit to love's forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power.

Answer 10

God.

God is Love.

I'm not religious but spirit real.

Love is the one attribute of God that exists in all of us. It is eternal and is the one thing we all seek.

Love is the "voluntary" commitment to the welfare of another, to nourish them and give them life. When you truly love someone, you "give" love. With all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your might, you "voluntarily" commit yourself to the welfare of that other person - without expecting anything in return.

When you truly do this, you will experience "true" love.

For the only "love" that is true is the love that is given.

For God so loved the world, that He gave Himself...