What does love mean to you?

hi perspectives,thanks for this lovely topic..love to me is everything related to the existence of a human being..--WARNING:mushy stuff ahead..;-)..for me i'll define it like this..love is a feeling which is although hard to explain but its at least not hard to share,to spread or to even show..it is a deep irreplaceable bond that is not developed in a day but it takes time to build up and grow which takes patience and devotion as you said to nurture it..love is not limited to genders,to religions,to customs and to humans as i believe..you can be in love with anybody or anything..its your own personal feeling of comfort and liking for that particular object be that a human or some pet or some non-living thing..and this feeling has no time limit also..i mean it can last for long or for very little time..but it is there in every way..i consider attraction as love too..thats love for beauty or personality or anything to which you get attracted..i love my friends,my parents,my partner,my profession,i love the Almighty and everything that has some meaning in my life or to whom i feel attracted..so you see for me love has sub-categories like religious or spiritual love,romantic love,parental love,possession love etc..but all have one single stem thats love itself..and there can be nth types of love for every person existing as it is not typed at the extreme..so yes its more than the three words and i consider those three words the shortest way of expressing love..they are the ultimate reminder of love..so these three words are also important for me to express my love for someone or something..

Some people you gotta love from a distance. Love never ends-you can love someone even when you hate them. LOL Love isn't an emotion, it's a choice and a way of life.

For me love means life. We can't live without love. The life starts with love. I think that I can't live without love.

Good Question you have raised, Perspectives! We have just imprisoned this word in the room of man- woman relationship and released it on parole when need its presence for friendship and other related things! We have not realized perhaps the essence of this universal gift to us for inner growth of ourselves from egoistic self and selfishness to the god! We are using it here and there, some time with each step, but we even don’t know that is it really there or not? What ever are we talking has the presence of love or not? I am not against individual love or man- woman love, because I have realized that as a human we have to start learning about love as an individual so individuality is the base and we have to enter in the realm of the love through these kinds of human possibilities! I can also understand that to reach for real love is a goal and there are various paths for that! But I know that it is the same when expressed in real! I mean to say that its manifestation has the same occurrence! There are poems and poems written about this fascinating feeling of our meaningful existence! We also know that fictions have revealed the shades and shadows of love! There are stories and examples of unconditional love for individuals! The love has blossomed in every corner of our life, every event of our life: If there is a crisis for nation, our love for nation has guided us to contribute and to devote our selves for that cause! If there is some thing to do or follow for the love most of the people are ready to do! Even so many times we have misinterpreted love as to please the loved one and done things which were against the love or not promoting the love! As far as Love of beloved one and mother’s love are concern one beautiful story I have read before years: One person loved his beloved so much. She also loved him. But once the Beloved One got a thought that let me test my lover that how much he loves me! So she asked him and got reply that he is ready to do anything for her Beloved! She asked again for the surety and again got reply that if she has doubt then say to do anything! And she told him to bring his mother’s heart for her! He went to his mother’s house and done the thing: Got his mother’s heart in hand! And on a way back he just slipped down. His mother’s heart also thrown away but the voice of his mother was saying, “Oh my son! Are you hurt my dear?” Well here ends the story! For me love is -- Love is the flying wings Love is the blossoming flowers Love is the flowing rivers Love is the sound of mountain’s echo Love is the deep call from oceans Love is spreading from the sun Love is the fragrance of the earth Love is blowing in the air Love is infused in the fire Love is floating in the sky Love is growing in the fields and forests Love is animal’s vitality Love is the mind of humanity Love is essence of pains and sufferings Love is substance of sorrows and pathos Love is Lord Jesus’ eye-sight! Love is Lord Krishna’s Flute! Love is Lord Buddha’s compassion! Love is Mother Kali’s Sword! Love is Allah’s voice! Love is verdict of the saints! Love is circuit of the yogis! Love is inner source of the things Love is THE SOUL of everything!

love is a commitment.,it has three stages 1. falling in love stage - you feel very attracted and romantic.,very euphoric., this is the illusion stage where everything is ok 2. falling out of love - the stage where you begin to be annoyed with the flaws of your partner., 3. choosing to love - this is a very diffucult stage because you still choose to love even though the person is not what you really expected. the stage where you accept the person for what she is and not for what you like her to be., most people fail to love truly because they become more abusive and tend to be selfish rather than selfless., this is the reason why people (mostly) tend to reach only the stage 2 of loving., they do not give themselves a chance to feel what true love really is., hope this helpsü

Love is a etrnal topic,there is full of love in our world.If you love somebody or something,you should give your best concern to it.Therefore,you could get the feeling of happyness.

Good question. To be in love means being able to be counted on 100%, easy forgiveness, complete trust, and of course that butterflies in the stomach feeling of being in love. Love also means that I give of myself, to family or friends, often times when I don't want to or really have other stuff to do besides being a listener or problem solver...it also means I expect all of the above in return. Deep question, too bad I don't really have a deeper answer, lol.

To my mind, love comes in various forms. There is the love between soulmates, or partners, whether it be man/woman, woman/woman, or man/man. This is the love that excels all other loves. It comes from deep down inside and lasts a very long time, if not forever. Then there is the love of friendship. Again, this can be quite a deep love, but not quite as strong as the love between soulmates and partners. Family love is more affection and a close knit, protective one and love for children, again is more an affection and protective love. Finally, there is love in my heart for all fellow men, Pagans and others alike. This is more in a caring, sypathetic nature. Love is actions as well as word, devotion, loyalty and honesty, plus support and an ability to converse, speak truthfully to one another and have a whole lot of trust for each other. Brightest Blessings.

Love to me is so unconditional, otherwise I would not be in the relationship I am in or have such a great bond with my children. Yes, we have been through some tough times and my partner and I nearly seperated last year, but the bond is so strong we have got through it and are very happy again...although of course we still argue, who doesn't. Love to me is undescribeable, it takes over all my emotions when I am in situations that make me feel happy or sad with the people I love. I can understand how people die from a broken heart when their love has been so strong. I feel it can be the worse pain ever but also the most euphoric. Love to me is also being able to have a deeper understanding of the people I love and the wanting to be with that person. This is more than being on a sympathetic level but a level that overwhelms and makes me feel certain emotions that other people would never make me feel. There are only a few people in my life I truely love as it means more to me than just a word, but the people I do love I love with all my heart and I would sacrifice everything for them. I hope this makes sense as I do find it hard to express in words what love means to me.

love for me is like a salad. you must have everything in it so that it will work out. what do i mean. its a mixture of love, patience, responsibility, adorement, perseverance and all the characters of the negative and the positive side. its a little of everything

I don't have much use for sentimental love but the poem offered in the post just before mine really speaks to me. My natural state resonates with the pulse of this universe, this earth nature, I call that love. The sweet innocence in a baby's eyes takes my breath away. I am notorious for loving my children and grandchildren. Loving them is the closest I can get to loving without an agenda, loving without the filters of insecurity and personality. When I was younger, I tried to explain that I cannot love with one name. Meaning, I cannot put your name at the end of that statement as though there are no others beyond it, i.e. "I love YOU" It is more natural for me to say simply "I love." Commitment, loyalty, monogamy - are all statements of character. I believe you can be weak of character and still love me sincerely. I can accept your sentimental love but reject the weakness of your character. I think that people in relationships are often confused by this line of demarcation. "How can you do that if you love me?" Because I have strong emotion or sentiment directed towards you, does not make my character invulnerable. This is why I say that I have little use for sentimental love. I'd rather build my relationship on the rock of his character than the water of his emotion. Love, in it's truest form, is not individualized. It is infinite energy. When it is individualized, it must be squeezed and shaped, scraped down to fit inside the tiny little space we call "human". People say that they are "in" love. This implies that there is an "out" of love. Since God is Love, I am not "OUT" of love because I am never out of the universe. I may be out of a relationship, out of communication, out of a man - but, I am never out of love. I know that I do not have conventional ideas about the energy of love. My mom used to shrug and tell people "Well, you know, she IS an Aquarius!" Maybe that's all it is. ;-)

Hello Raia. What does love mean to me?Hmmmm..... I guess my definition of love is still giving a part of me even when there are times that I already get weary from always giving. I feel the tiredness but still I know I can't stop because the people that matter to me needs that love. And besides, no matter how tiring it can be, that's what makes me go on living. It serves as my purpose why I'm still breathing. It gives me a reason why I still do what I am doing. No matter how many hurt, resentment and just any little ugly things that comes my way.

will i think people mixing up love with diffrant stuff such as astonished and admir and like maybe u like some one but not that much to love him and too it's difrrant what limitts that evry body acn do like some body can die for the one he love and other love but not more than him self and another love but not more than money so it depends on HOW MUCH U LOVE? and is it love real love or admire like that came from u maybe love some one but when u ask ur self why u will say for areason that mewan u don't love u like maybe very like but like becuse if that reason gone u wount love him the same but if ur answer why u lovee this person is ....... i don't really know i just do then u do hold that person as much as u can and make him as happy as possible ;)

Love!!!!!!!!!!!!what to say about it. * To love & win,is the best thing. To love & lose,the nest best. William.M.Thackeray * Love means to care about the one,to feel about the one.Constantly thinking about the person.They are in your dreams,in your sleep,in your actions,in your work,means to say they are in your life. * Love means to become someone's part of life.To be loving him/her always without thinking whether they feel the same for you. There is not just one type of love in this huge world.The love for your parents,your bros. & sis.,your friends,your children,love for humanity;all belong to the catogory of love. * In my view love is a sacred thing,it is immaterial. * Love is as endless as sky & as deep as an ocean. love can't be measured.It can only be felt.

Understanding the unknown, handling the unreachable and keeping what had end.. if you did either one of this, then it is love.

as you see I had to study on this awhile. Love to me is all consuming waking hours sleeping hour. When you have found the one you love you wan tto find out every thing about that person and it may take years to do this. When your love one is away you can hardly wait for them to be by your side. When they are away from you you feel like a peice of you is gone. So ya hold on as tight and as long as ya can and hold an love on them when they are near. A kiss at night and then te arms around you holding you tight thru the night to me this is true love.

Hi there. What is love? I wondered about that, too. A couple vow of undying love, gets married, then have to watch it come to an end after three years, three weeks, three months. That really puzzles me. Who do I love? I love my husband. I love my daughter. I loved my mom. I love my sister. I love my best friend. I love all these people I mentioned. But I love each of them in a different way. My love for my husband is the typical romantic love. While my love for my daughter is boundless, I think. My love for my mom? I held her on a pedestal. I know she had a lot of weakness, but I idealized her. I am what I am to my mom. We were so much bonded. I was not the best person, but she loved me to no end. I love my sisiter in a way that only sisters would understand. I love her because we share so much and if you sever that tie, I think I wouldn't be complete. I love my best friend because she shares my entire life. Yes, love do remain and can be in different forms. And what is love? Ahhh, that is such a complex question. But I will try to describe what I think love is for me in simpler terms. I think love has to be unconditional. Love is a quest for personal growth. As you said "love is sustained by action", giving of yourself to another, your time, your effort. Love is not finding fault, but finding something good in you. Love is definitely NOT a feeling. Love is sacrifice. Love is forgiveness. Oh, I haven't really pondered on what is love lately. I hope I have written everything about my defenition of love here. I might have forgotten some. Great post!

Hi Perspectives :) This is such a good question! As a matter of fact, it's SO good that I can't answer it right away...I'm going to have to give some thought to how I will express myself in writing. Be patient, haha :)

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Love, like so many other emotions is virtually impossible to explain unless there is some way to convey the way a a feeling feels to another person directly with the absence of words. I love lots of things in my life, and there are varying degrees of love and different types of love. There is the love that I feel for my family and that differs from the love I feel for my partner and that in turn is very different to love I feel for my friends. When I am in a relationship with someone and it ends, I find myself, more often than not carrying some form of love still for that person. Even those that have hurt me. Because regardless of what happened there were good times and they showed me love of their own and that makes me love them for simply being a part of my life and teaching me things through those interactions. Love, I believe, does make the word go around. And EVERYONE regardless of race, religion, gender or any other distinguishing factor; deserves to be loved. I am in a partnership, and my partner is my best friend and my lover, he is my courage, my determination, my happiness, my hopes, my dreams, my sunshine, my guidance, my inspiration... But at the same time, he is my fear, my sadness, my darkness, my uncertainty, my confusion... He is my everything...and there is no one in this world that could ever take his place. I am loved, and have love for many people and creatures in my life. There are so many different types and degrees of love we would take an eternity to express them all. But I totally agree..."love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." Love is always present though, we just have to realise it...