What is love?

Question

i'm having a survey which i will include in my report.. so, write whatever you think about love, any kind of love that is, and you are helping me a great big deal! thanks a lot! your answers will be very much appreciated. : )

Answer 1

Love is a storm which comes silently and goes loudly.

Answer 2

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

There are different kinds of love, but I think romantic love amounts to having a general desire (including physical) for somebody, when the relationship between the two of you is at the stage when you would not exchange that person for someone else with similar qualities with whom you had not had the same history, experiences and the like. If the latter is not the case, it is probably just lust

Answer 4

Love is a marketing concept which was employed to make chocolatiers, florists and certain publishers rich under the guise of Valentines day, that in itself is a right marketing coup... because now everyone is on the band waggon.

Answer 5

Love is a feeling. Love is kind. Love is not selfish. Love can overcome all difficulties. Love is a feeling that encourages you to live on. Love is....
Many people treat love as sth they give to people they like. Actually, love should be given to everyone. Love should be given to a child. Love should be given to a dying patient. Love cares for everyone.
With love, the world can be a better place. Love can give support to people for them to live on bravely. love is the most important thing on earth. Love is compassionate. Show love to everyone that need it - your family, friends, ...

Answer 6

Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up,  does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury.  It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 Love never fails.

Answer 7

Love is an absolute affection. If sort of affection change the kind of love will also change. Love with sister or brother, love with wife or husband, here, love is used absolute affection but sort of affection is different.
So love depends on any type of affinity, sexual appeal or inspiration etc. Love is absolute, therefore, Love is God, and Love is absolute so Love is Life.

Answer 8

God.
Love of love
Love of life
and giving without measure
gives in return a wonderess yearn of a promise almost seen...

Answer 9

love is hope when u no there is none,love is peace in the midst of a storm,love is the calm wind after a wild storm,love is music without a song,love is the inspiration in us all,love is the dream we all live 2 survive in,love is the sweetness in a bitter ending.
all we need is love.xxx

Answer 10

If you can truely wrap your head around this and you will realize Love is the most profoundly important aspect of our existence.

Love is the act of considering the self interest of another as if it were your own.
-Quill-

Answer 11

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant

"We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm

"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."
- Dorothy Parker

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."
- Woody Allen

cheers :)