2007-07-12 07:38:37 · 12 answers · asked by danny ptedle 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"Love" isn't a single emotion, it's a meshing of two or more emotions of varying degrees, put together in different combinations by each individual, which change from moment to moment throughout their lifetimes. This definition covers all types of love, not just "perfect" or "true" love.
Each person decides throughout their lifetime at any moment what love is to them whether it is on a conscious level or not; what combination of emotions they should be feeling, how strongly they need to be feeling each of them and how important each of them is. This is why people fall in love with strangers or those they barely know, because those types of people are basically blank slates whom we can convince ourselves meet our criteria. It's also why we become brokenhearted later (which is almost inevitable) when we get to know them through a closer relationship and discover that they didn't meet our criteria after all, if that ends up being the case.
As a person ages and experiences different things, then their views also change, sometimes slightly and sometimes drastically. So what they attribute as love changes, too. This is why people fall out of love with others, or why their love will develop or grow stronger.
Since we each decide which combination of emotions at any time come together to be love, then it is us that chooses love and not the other way around. You aren't made to fall in love with a certain person, you've chosen to, whether it's a conscious choice or not. We are also each responsible for any "destructive" love we may feel if we include emotions such as jealousy and anger into the combination.
There are all kinds of love and infatuation is one of them. It's more commonly known as "puppy love". People tend to discriminate against it and belittle it because it doesn't fall into the category of what they consider to be "true love" or "perfect love", but it is love nonetheless. The thing about the love known as infatuation is that it tends to be an obsessive and very passionate kind of love, so the one possessing it views the person they are infatuated with through very narrow blinders and the fire of the love burns bright and fast, and in turn dies just as quickly and thoroughly.
2007-07-12 07:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Before trying to find the definition of the word in English, you might consider learning a bit about Greek.
To the best of my recollection, Greek has six different words for "love", with six totally distinct definitions, all of which are translated as "love".
It might help to understand why it means so much, so little, and so many things, all at once. Our language isn't always adequate to allow us to say what we want to say with any real precision.
Given that, it's easy to see why a woman might be uneasy getting a marriage proposal from a man whom she knows "loves" steak.
2007-07-12 14:59:55 · answer #2 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's a good description from the Apostle Paul:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2007-07-12 14:47:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
jjjjjjj has done as good a job of describing and defining love here in this list of answers as I have ever read or seen. I will only add this as I think it is relative, everyone has the right to choose their own friends and their enemies, and both their friends an enemies must live with the consequence. Somehow This seems relitave to me.
2007-07-12 14:54:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"All you need is love!" Beatles
"Love is a many splendor'd thing..." Shakespeare (originally) sung by ???
"Love lifts you up where you belong..." Elton John & Kiki Dee
""Love, love, love... " Beatles
"It's safe in the city to love in a doorway..." David Bowie
"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together." Simon & Garfunkel
"Love me two times, I've gone away..." Jim Morrison
"I love the clothes you wear they're so mean, they're so free, they're so handsome!" Marc Bolan
"I used to think I'd had enough of silly love songs..."
Paul Mcartney & WINGS!!!
Does this help??!
2007-07-12 14:55:02 · answer #5 · answered by Pooka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the word men use to get into the ladies pants!
2007-07-12 14:41:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
“Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you,
but trusting them not to.”
"Love is something exuisite that you just can't explain...like the look of a rose, the smell of the rain...and the feeling of forever!!!
“Love, is not needing a snooze button on your alarm clock
because when it goes off the first time in the morning,
the thoughts of your loved one lying beside you
Make it impossible to fall back asleep.”
“Love is holding that special someone closely,
and realizing it still isn’t close enough.”
"Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails..."
“It’s not that I can’t live without you,
It’s that I don’t even want to try”
“When I first saw you,
I was afraid to talk to you
When I first talked to you,
I was afraid to like you
When I first liked you,
I was afraid to love you
Now that I love you,
I’m afraid to lose you”
“It’s hard to pretend you love someone when you don’t,
but it’s even harder to pretend you don’t love someone when you do!”
“It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it,
but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.”
“I wish dreams were like wishes, and wishes came true,
because in my dreams, I’m always with you!”
“The more you love, the more you give yourself away,
yet, you don’t become less of who are you, you end up being complete!”
“There are three great things in this world:
The first thing is for you to love someone;
The second is for someone to love you back;
And the third thing greatest thing,
is for the first and second things to happen at once.”
A friend’s love says: “If you ever need anything, I’ll be there”
True Love Says: “You’ll never need anything; I’ll be there.”
“I wait for you, anxious to see your smile.
I stand and watch, looking for the first sign of your arrival.
I finally see you. I take a second glance to make sure you’re really there.
My pulse races, and I crack a smile; this is all I’ve been waiting for.
You begin to approach and say, “Sorry I’m late.”
I say, “No problem,” And I think to myself, I’d have waited forever!”
“I was lonely, scared and confused. I asked God for an angel….He sent me something even better…He sent me you!”
“When you having nothing left but love, you realize that
love is enough. Then, when you lose love, you realize
it is everything.”
”Life is only worth living once you’ve found someone worth dying for.”
“If he is the first thing you think of when you wake up, the only thing
you think of while you’re awake, and the last thing you think of before
you go to sleep, then he is really something special.
If “I love you” is only three words,
why is it worth a million?
2007-07-12 17:08:27 · answer #7 · answered by *Jen* 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Love is when we love, care etc. the other more than our self
2007-07-15 09:41:05 · answer #8 · answered by miranda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think lennon said it best:
Love is real, real is love,
Love is feeling, feeling love,
Love is wanting to be loved.
Love is touch, touch is love,
Love is reaching, reaching love,
Love is asking to be loved.
Love is you,
You and me,
Love is knowing,
We can be.
Love is free, free is love,
Love is living, living love,
Love is needing to be loved.
-john lennon
2007-07-14 12:57:41 · answer #9 · answered by harrison_honey03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is accepting someone for what they are and not what you want them to be. If you can't do this, your relationship is doomed.
2007-07-12 14:47:48 · answer #10 · answered by Dave H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋