What is love?

This is a really tough question in my opinion. In my opinion love is a number of things:

Love is the attachment that results from deeply appreciating another's goodness.
Love is the attachment that results from deeply appreciating another's goodness.
LOVE IS A CHOICE

If love comes from appreciating goodness, it needn't just happen -- you can make it happen. Love is active. You can create it. Just focus on the good in another person (and everyone has some). If you can do this easily, you'll love easily.
Obviously, there's a huge distance from here to the far more profound, personal love developed over the years, especially in marriage. But seeing goodness is the beginning.

I believe that by focusing on the good, you can love almost anyone.

ACTIONS AFFECT FEELINGS

Now that you're feeling so warmly toward the entire human race, how can you deepen your love for someone? The way God created us, actions affect our feelings most. For example, if you want to become more compassionate, thinking compassionate thoughts may be a start, but giving charity will get you there. Likewise, the best way to feel loving is to be loving -- and that means giving.

What is giving? When an enthusiastic handyman happily announces to his non- mechanically inclined wife, "Honey, wait till you see what I got you for your birthday -- a triple-decker toolbox!" that's not giving. Neither is a father's forcing violin lessons on his son because he himself always dreamed of being a virtuoso.
Giving leads to love.

OPENING YOURSELF TO OTHERS

The effect of genuine, other-oriented giving is profound. It allows you into another person's world and opens you up to perceiving his or her goodness. At the same time, it means investing part of yourself in the other, enabling you to love this person as you love yourself.


Because deep, intimate love emanates from knowledge and giving, it comes not overnight but over time -- which nearly always means after marriage. The intensity many couples feel before marrying is usually great affection boosted by commonality, chemistry, and anticipation. These may be the seeds of love, but they have yet to sprout. On the wedding day, emotions run high, but true love should be at its lowest, because it will hopefully always be growing, as husband and wife give more and more to each other.

What do you think love is?

I love everyone . I always find something i love about everyone I meet ..tehe

Love is like a car:
You don't know when you find the right one, but in any case, once you got one, you gotta keep in maintained or else you get probems

Caihlem wrote:

Love is like a car:
You don't know when you find the right one, but in any case, once you got one, you gotta keep in maintained or else you get probems

Very true Caihlem, Just like marriage.

Marriage is like suicide: Fels great until it actually happens

Caihlem wrote:

Marriage is like suicide: Fels great until it actually happens

Silly, marriage is accualy wonderfuly horrible sometimes. Takes alot of communication, work and compromise. But I wouldn't change being married to Jason for 1 milasecond in time. He's the best and worst thing that's ever happened to me

Love is the ablility to give your whole self to another...to be totally lost in there eyes , emotions, and self been. Love is Great feeling, i'd recommend it to anyone lol

the only thing i can think of is that love is ....... great
it has its ups and downs , sometimes you want to screeam and can feel trapped
but the next moment love is everything and life would not exsist without it


love can be everything or nothing it changes from day to day

Love is something you give, and if you are loved back you will recieve more and so you will give more.

Therefore love will grow and grow.

Like I say - Who can understand Love??