2007-10-06 15:33:38 · 18 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It isn't hard to know what love is. Love is simply pure happiness that comes from within.
Love is when one is able to understand and accept that people are folly and make mistakes and can't help being human. Love helps the one(s) to achieve their full potential and be the best that they can be, personally wise, success wise, love wise. Love never judges and rejoices when the truth is spoken. Love understands that there are many different personalities, and some will clash sometimes--but is strong enough to fight any negativity and compromise and forgive and move towards a better relationship. That is what real love is. Real love is that strong that it sees perfection and goodness despite flaws.
2007-10-06 18:01:48 · answer #1 · answered by Tiffany 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the easiest thing to figure out! Open a Websters dictionary, read the definition, morph it into words that "you" feel fit better. Take 3 weeks or so, because there will be times that a phrase or idea will pop in your head and you will just know THIS is love! Stuff like the words "unconditional" will come and then go when you realize there just can't be that kind of love out there. There will be little insertions that you'd think would come and go, like "without expectations for reward", but somehow it hangs on with zeal, the term "esteem" may be a central focus or a sub-category. As life goes on, the definition will continue to experience change in small bits. But, you will always know what love is at any one moment.
2007-10-07 02:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by delux_version 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it's hard, especially if you haven't experienced it before. You don't know if what you're feeling is love or simply infatuation, and it's often a fine line between the two.
But I think after a while, you realize that you want to spend more time with the person, but you're not completely depressed when you're not together either. One difference between love and infatuation is that love can be strengthened by separation. And if you're in love, you're less likely to feel jealousy because you trust the other person. In a nutshell, love is longer lasting and hard to break while infatuation can come and go.
2007-10-06 15:46:49 · answer #3 · answered by student 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is... until you understand that as human beings we are attracted to people who are meeting an emotional need in our lives at that moment... I am not talking about lust because that is not love or even related..
If you take the time to see the clip or movie.
"What the Bleep do we Know" I think they do a great job of explaining it.
Now with that said you can have an attractive personality and many people can fall in love with you.. and visa versa.
So with that said learn to give the emotional responses that create love and then choose the one who is intelligent enough to not only give this bad to you but consistently and understandably enough to carry it through a long term relationship.
2007-10-06 16:10:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not if it's true, real, and honestly and purely enduring and everlasting to the last breath. That love, is the easiest recognized, because you need no one, and nothing to tell you that it's there. of course, there's blind love, where you think it's true love, but it's really love hanging on a broken branch
2007-10-06 15:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
Love comes in many shapes and sizes, from love for your fellow man to love for your friend, for yourself, for your lover, for your God, for a flower, or a pet, or a favorite food, or a piece of art.
Love is many things to many people and only one thing to us all.
If you know what that one thing is then by all means you know love, and if not then you may never know what love is even if it were shown to you a thousand times.
So yes it is hard to know love but easy to believe in it.
2007-10-06 19:31:11 · answer #6 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes...I'm so busy giving love out to others that I don't realize all the love that comes back to me...in fact, I started hollering at God in a big dramatic way, yelling at Him, "Why, when I give love and more love, and ALL my love, do I not get any love or gratitude in return?"
2007-10-06 17:03:52 · answer #7 · answered by birdtennis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Four little letters that can destroy or exalt.
Eros, Filias, Agape... Hard? It's all subjective!
2007-10-06 15:48:11 · answer #8 · answered by Duchamp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all when you have found The One.
2007-10-07 02:57:29 · answer #9 · answered by † Iríšh † 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't exist, plain and simple. It's all superficial. It's all an excuse to make someone else vulnerable.
2007-10-06 15:39:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋