In your mind, what is love? Do you think that love involves getting everything that you want all the time?

Question

Or is their discipline involved in love. What is love to you? Elaborate. Thank you.

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Answer 1

Actually, true agape, or unconditional love is the opposite of selfishness. Let me quote you a few lines of what God says love is:
1 Corinthians
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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Answer 2

Love is: terms of either romance or companionship. The better the relationship, the more one will go to the subsequent level of Intimacy. You can experience love that is very deep in many ways, but it is never “complete love” unless all the parts make it whole.
Sexual Love, an expression of love, physically.
Brotherly Love, Love that is generated because of a common bond. Love that is banded together in unity and cooperation, with like interests and for mutual benefit. Love working toward a common goal.
Friendship Love, involving respect and concern for another person’s interest. This love contains more companionship than excitement.
Divine Love, altruistic love that is experienced by people willing to do things for another person with no expectations. Precious, beloved, and esteemed love.

What Love should be is the affinity experienced between two people who are naturally able and willing to tune into one another's emotional, intellectual, and physical states - and respond to them in a nurturing and a stimulating way.
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Answer 3

Love has very little to do with getting everything you want.
Love is the most powerful force in the universe.
Some say "God is love." I think, "Love is god."
Just ask anyone who has had a child, lost a child or buried a child.
Ask a woman who has been betrayed by her husband.
Ask a man who has suffered to save his brother.
Or a stranger.
Yes, anything good (for you) starts with love, comes from love, or ends with love.Or all three.
Anything bad (for you) starts without it.
To any question, the answer involves love, if it is to be a good, long-term answer. To any question, any other answer, leads to long-term disaster.
Love is not without pain, but it is a fair price to pay for the joy it brings.
Nothing worthwhile is accomplished without discipline, unselfishness, and loving kindness.
You can be the most talented, beautiful, and brilliant person on earth, and without discipline, you will destroy yourself or others.
Love for yourself, and love of others is the basis for all peaceful living.

Answer 4

What you describe is greed. Love is foremost an action, which may have emotion associated with it. The action being whatever builds a person up, whether that be the self or another.

I'm somewhat unusual in that I believe a person's first love should be to themself. I maintain (and this has been borne out through much experience) that you need to look after yourself first so that you can be at your best. Only then are you ready to give your best to others. I frequently observe people who care but are ineffective because they are just too worn down to make a difference.

I suppose I mean that altruism begins at home.

Answer 5

Erich Fromm wrote a nice booked titled "The Art of Loving", in which he points out that love is a goal, a culmination, and not something that is just 'fallen into'.

He traces the idea of romantic love to Shakespeare.

There are many words for love in sanskrit language, like "prem" "anurag" "hrdaya" "anahata", and they all have different connotations.

According to saints and sages of India, love in this world is necessarily shaded by selfishness, in fact, it is said that the mother's love for her child is the closest thing in this world to true love, because it is so selfless.

True love, according to them, is found in the cultivation of love of God. But to love someone, you have to know the person, so loving God requires to get to know God.

Anyway, love is shown by service. If you love someone, you do things for them, naturally. That's how love is expressed.

I wish I knew more about it to share, but there are some things I know.

Good luck!!!

Answer 6

Love is the term humans use to describe being in heat. That's right a hardwired hormone driven biological drive just like any other mammal.

Answer 7

to me love is giving of yourself helping others being there for who ever needs you love is not about yourself and getting, have a few kids and you will know what love is the first time you look into that little face you will feel more love than you ever thought possible and that feeling will never leave you. that's my kind of love

Answer 8

Love is anything but getting what you want all the time. Its a balance of power. Better yet an exchange... a walk on a tight rope.

Answer 9

Well I read all the answers about love and see from the Bible that Jesus Christ is Love and his life he lived is Love. I Cor.13 is Paul's example of Love but he calls it Charity which means giving not recieving. So as a child you are selfish to preserve your own life, this is more like Satan than God and the Bible teaches is evil. Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
But to be a child of God you must be able to stand alone away from your friends and family and trust and obey only God; Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: 52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
God loved his people so much he sent his only son on earth to be destroyed at the hands of mankind; 1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Love is giving freely of yourself expecting nothing in turn. Mankind does not give this way, they have more brotherly love where if you give to me then I will give to you, this is most common in marriage relationships and the Bible calls this love Philo or brotherly love which is always conditional and the way most people love God or what they imagine to be their God. But God can be brutal to his people that are stubborn; Hebrews 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye b@stards, and not sons.
Bible teaches very plainly by Jesus Christ you will suffer for believing the truth. Look at Jesus Christ life and also look at disciples lives, they were all killed at hands of religious people for believing the truth.
How many rich ministers think they follow Jesus Christ example, Jesus Christ was smarter than Solomon and yet he made himself poor and always looked out for the things of others more than himself. Here he is dying on the cross and can only think of his mother more than himself; John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
He was worried about Mary not being able to take care of herself so he adopted John to be his brother, this is true Love

Answer 10

love is about compromise. There are thiings that I hate and my husband loves, etc. I endure them for him, but it should be mutual. Love is about respect and support. The two people should always be there for one another, help with their problems,and share their high points. Love should be a friendship that has blossomed.