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What is love to you?
Of course, my idea comes straight from the bible:
4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends;

Love is a very confusing emotion to me - especially as I've never felt it (the 'eros' variety, that is).

I don't find love for family members confusing, but I do feel that love in general can lead to a certain degree of poor judgement and reckless action. It isn't a logical emotion, it isn't instinctual. It is a very human emotion and is hard to classify.

for me since i am an intellectual and a deep thinker, it is basicaly a state of being
you ARE in love, its also a feeling of affection for one or other persons not by there sexuality but by there personality and mentality.

Love is an emotion without any real definition, so I will explain how I see it as best as I can. Love is... that almost desperate feeling that you need to feel that person. That person seems to be your world, and "extremifies" (is that a word of the English language?) your emotions. At least, that is the case with me. If she's happy, my joy is multiplied. Consequently, when she's sad, I feel naught but depressed. Infatuation and lust contain several of the elements that create love, but neither has everything that love does. Love is to die for, and if you have that person's love in return, then nothing else in the whole entire world will be able to truly harm you. If that doesn't make sense, my apologies, but that is the best I could manage.

In some cases the easiest answer is the most thoughtful one:

We could go the way of poets from romantic eras past and continuing; we could express within sonnets and songs using all the words that come to mind, or we could express within touches and kisses using all the elegantly primal movements of our physical forms. But love will forever remain the most essential human emotion, human action, human state of being that can never be defined.

Even the dictionary defines it with the word "ineffable." Beyond description.

So as confusing and heartwarming; tormenting and comforting love is, if you can really feel it I would ask why you're wasting your time trying to describe it instead of embracing it.


As for what it means to me?
... I, uh, haven't gotten there yet.

Sometimes that intrigue yet confuses.

If God created all man kind in his image, with his love and his soul. Then I put forwards this common question. Why is it that there are those who are different? Different to what we known to be 'Normal'. 'God's children'. If we had a good image of God then this will be settled, but no, we don't. But instead, we get people who are like Presidents down to people who are janitors..People of one culture to another..Main statement here is: People who are fortunate and those who aren't. By fortunate I mean, the essentials. But think of it, how many billions of people do not receive the essent items? Food, a good 'full' body? Those who are not fortunate enough to be accepted into the general and violent society. So here then, if humanity are all in God's image, then by that we can contribute that God is a make up of both the poor and the rich, the unfortunate and the fortunate, the good and the bad, the tall and the short, the ones who have arms and those who suffer, Those who are 'lucky' and those who suffer from illness, those who win millions of dollars from Lotto and those who walk from the Casino in depression, those who murder and those who pray, those who discriminate and others who support...I don't know, I probably just don't understand it..

We can obviously see that religion does not affect your success in any way whatsoever. Isn't Richard Gere Buddhist? So, let's talk about love and not religion.

Also, that's why I tried to define it as best I could, but I failed and ended up just giving my experiences on it. It's easy to define anger, happiness. It's also easy to read the definition of love in the dictionary, but you cannot express this emotion in words. All I can say is, once it truly hits you, you are a slave to it.

In that case, I'm glad that I've never experienced it.

love.....
love makes men weak

It's something that can't be explained, but you'll know it when you feel it. You'll KNOW.

Love is a feeling that was created by Man itself in order to balance his life through joy and depression.

Working fine by now...

Love is what you feel for family members. So called "hornyness" is another thing. You future wife should be somone you like and live with, like a family member, not just some airhead with a hot body.

I beat that shitty feeling outta me years ago.
It was annoying and useless.
Stupid Brainz

That's sad. I'm guessing you didn't have good experiences with it. Let me tell you, this feeling has made the last 8 months of my life pure bliss, even through the crappy times.

Love = love for your neighbours, for those you care about, and furthermore, those who surround you, no matter bad or good, light or enslaved by darkness....

An attribute that all living things consists of in their insentives.

WHAT?

Its not real. Have you ever noticed that people who claim to be "in love" tend to be not the best looking in the bunch? do you believe people like tom cruise or jennefer aniston fall in love?. I think not. i personally NEVER use the word love to anyone. If i did it would be A lie. if you been with someone for like 5 years i would Still not consider that love. i would think of him or her as more a consort. tell me honestly firekami have you ever been in love or was it something else? have you ever told someone you loved them but not mean it. you cant say you LOVE someone then hate them the next day for talking to another girl. isnt the point of those who claim to be in love to forgive and forgot? The Bible says to me that if you have sex you should stay with them. to me anything is says about love is some fools miss interprtaion of God.

remembor that the next time you claim to love someone.

You don't seem to realize that "love" is part of accepting most aspects (good or bad) of your loved one...

What? heh accepting good or bad of your loved ones is love you stated that they were already your loved ones so how can that be? and your wrong, accepting is just what it is accepting. its giveing up, submiting, learning to live with it. that means you can stand it but you dont like it. and if you dont like it why do you stand it. because you are despret. life is about choices and "love" is when you run out of choices. Oh and before anyone says " what about when someone chooses not to cheat becasue they love someone?" thats a load of crap that my freinds is fear of the guilt. its not knowing what lies ahead. what if you get caught. i am happy with this person but i might not be happy if she catches me cheating. i might end up alone. and its the fear of being alone that makes you not cheat. its the fear of loseing a freind because thats all she is is a freind nothing more nothing less.

"Not cheat" is ALSO part of the trust both people place in the relationship. If you already lost all faith in humanity, you might as well suicide, seeing as you will never love anyone or anything.

I think you missunderstood i like life very much. there are plenty of things i enjoy doing like sex and talking about feelings that dont exist. and you may have proved my point. its a bond of trust and when you break the trust you feel very bad. hence the guilt. oh and please refrain from telling people to kill themselfs its not nice. and where is this loseing faith in humanity comeing from i dont recall ever hating humanity. being a human that would mean i hate my self. but no i dont hate im just a a realist. a realist that has outgrown farytales and happy endings. shit happens and we learn to live with it. its what we learn from our experiences that make us who we are. and let me tell you from experience,

Love doesnt exist.

Love is the demonstration of further affection toward others, and seriously, someone isn't ready for this if they just see loved ones as a future deception, or treason (can't believe I'm saying that myself...).

You can't say love doesn't exist if you never experienced it before; and it seems to be the case since you (apparently, judging from your posts) take women as objects; Objects of sexual and friendly purpose (not "object" as in the popular conception, though).

I have loved one to many times, And lost all.... I was used one too many times .. So i dont know what to belive no-more when someone says to me: I love you Not a ncie feeling to have. But as Time passes on... Ill get over it...

Anway back on topic,
Not im not to sure how to explain what i think love is, So ill give it my best shot, Im better showing it, than explaing it

If you are looking for love, would you recognize it if you found it?
Can you tell the difference between love and infatuation?
Between love and attraction?
Between love and sexual desire?
Between love and friendship?
Between sex and intimacy?
Between a good relationship and one that is only pleasurable?

The Meaning of Love offers and explains a definition of love in a way that is interesting, intense, clear, logical, and meaningful. All relationships --love, infatuation, friendship, dating, marriage, family, community, and professional-- involve three key elements:

Emotions --how we feel about each other
Ethics --how good or bad we are for each other
Joys --how much we satisfy or dissatisfy each other

It's a mouthful that demands explanation. What is it that makes us 'willing' and 'naturally able' to love?

Let's start at the beginning - at the moment when someone new turns us on. Being 'turned on' is the immediate reason why we become willing to love someone. It's our response to their observable qualities.

But now we're on a journey into the unknown. The person that we think we see in front of us could well be a million miles from the person we are about to get involved with. We may walk in willing, but there's no guarantee that we'll end up loving.

The problem is that compatibility, the key ingredient for a long term successful relationship, lies hidden from view. If we could choose compatible partners by their outer characteristics, few relationships would fail.

Basicly, love is a great feeling. Never abuse it! As it can cause great damge to anyone!

In my opinion love is everything. You have to love something inorder to hate its opposite. Love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love. God had love for us so he sent us his son. You have to love to talk to people inorder to see.

Hmm, a friend once told me that hate is not the opposite of love. It is indifference that is the opposite of love. It has something to do with that you need to care about someone enough to hate them. Then again, I'm not exactly the one that's headed into psychology. Just thought i'd mention this.

wot is love?? i mean from different perspectives... its different every way. From Christian perspective (or anything related to it) love is a sacrficial thing. Like if you truly love a person, you would give them ANYTHING (including your clothes, life, time, etc or is it ect.?) yadadayayadadaya so on... I want to know wot are ur thoughts on this.

Also To know love is to give love, To give love is to feel love, To feel love is to know love. T/F? Tru or False?