What is love?

Answer 1

I asked my husband this question because I like to know what men think. He said you know you're in love because you feel very comfortable with that person. I thought about it for a while as I have before. To me that was a great answer.
To me it is unconditional love. You just love someone... They don't have to be anything but themselves.
I believe everyone thinks of love as something different. If you have love you know it. There really is no doubt. You get through everything in life because you love them. You want the best for them. You hurt if they hurt. If you are mean to them you feel bad. You accept their faults because you are in love with them.
The two of you are each other's angels through thick and thin.

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

Love is when you consider your spouse/boyfriend as your best friend, one that you can rely on day in and day out. Love is when the two become one and noone or thing can defeat your relationship. When you can come home after a hard day and that someone is their waiting to listen and be your support when noone else cares. You have to become a team and realize that you are on the same team for now and forever.

Answer 4

The Bible says of love as follows,
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
Bible
~I Corinthians 13:4-8~
for leo it is:


"Perfect love is rare indeed -
for to be a lover will require
that you continually have
the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar and
the fortitude of the certain."
~Leo Buscaglia
For emmet fox it is as under:
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be
the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
~Emmet Fox~

whereas for crossmann it is :

"Love is friendship set to music."
~E. Joseph Crossmann~
for HWBeecher it is this:
"Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart."
~Henry Ward Beecher~
See what PUstinov says:
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~Peter Ustinov~
see what PBailey says
"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love"

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
~Pearl Bailey~


Nobel leaureate rntagore says as under::
" I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
in life after life, in age after age forever."
~Rabindranath Tagore~

O my Victor Hugo!only you can say like this:


"Love is a portion of the soul itself,
and it is of the same nature as the
celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

"The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved,
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"The reduction of the universe to a single being,
the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love."
~Victor Hugo~



Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly
and without law, and must be plucked where it is found,
and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
~D.H.Lawrence~

Life and hope for the world
are to be found only in the deeds of love.
~Bertrand Russell~



After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve
in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden
with her than inside it without her.
~Mark Twain~



For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters,
the former makes its exit.
~Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)~



"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics
so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity."
~Albert Einstein Quotes~



And now here is my secret, a very simple secret;
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

Answer 5

There are four basic forces identified in the universe: ELECTROMAGNETIC force, the STRONG nuclear force, the ELECTRO-WEAK force, and GRAVITY. Of these GRAVITY stands out as odd. It is far weaker than any of the other three. But it is specifically because of GRAVITY that we are here. It is GRAVITY that makes it possible for stars to exist and as Carl Sagan told us "We are all made of Starstuff".

Gravity permeates the universe. Brian Swimme in his book "The Universe is a Green Dragon", refers to this all permeating force as "ALLUREMENT". This ALLUREMENT is responsible for the universe as we see it.

It could be said that this all-permeating ALLUREMENT is LOVE.

Answer 6

love is many things love is selflessness, a feeling you would do anything for someone, it also may be generated by part of your brain. personally i would jump in front of a bullet for a loved one you may have another take on it.

Answer 7

A feeling generated in a part of your brain. Or... a feeling that you would do anything for the object in which you love without selfeshness.

Answer 8

When you cannot imagine talking, touching or somewho interacting with that person on a day-to-day basis. (Thats how I figured out I fell in love with my husbnd of 22 years). I needed some form of him everyday.

As for kids, I thnk once they smile into your eyes, its all over

Answer 9

To me, LOVE is when you think that there is no possible way that you can even think of not spending the rest of your life with that person.

Answer 10

My definition of love is:
Love is promoting each other's well being;
be it --
Mentally
Emotionally
Physically
Socially
Spiritually
Financially
Educationally
Healthily etc.