What is love, really?
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True Love ....\n\nIt's as mysterious as the stars it was written on, as elusive. It is everything it's hyped about to be. It's worth taking every risk, it's worth fighting for, and the problem is if you don't risk all then you risk even more. Love is kind of an elixir that lures us out of reality and into the realm of fantasy. It's like a drug creating an altered state of consciousness.\n\nLove is the moment when an unfavorable act becomes favorable, when you make excuses for some one else's mistakes, when you learn to tolerate, when you learn acceptance, when sacrificing becomes the beauty of life. \n\nIt's the courage to tell the truth especially when you believe its unspeakable.\n\nIt's the time when seeing some one, being seen by some one and thinking about some one feels good, when you learn to find happiness in the smallest of moments.\n\nThat's love--when you learn to put down your ego and love some one more than that.\n\nLove is forgetting your self and remembering some one else. \n\nLove is choosing your partner exactly as he is, and supporting him in his choices. It's honoring your partner's truth and wanting best for him.\n\nIt's not controlling or possessing but rather respecting and trusting.\n\nIt does not mean owning some one, getting some one, rather it means being happy in your loved one's happiness.\n\nLove means living without judgments. It means treasuring your beloved and never taking him for granted. \n\nLove means being able to forgive and learning to give more then you get. It means reaching out when you don't want to, communicating rather than assuming and asking questions rather than jumping to conclusions.\n\nIt means working things out rather than fighting, fighting rather than leaving, and staying through the hurts and disappointments, knowing that through commitment all can be healed. \n\nFalling in love is like being enveloped in a magical cloud. The air feels fresher, the flowers smell sweeter, food tastes more delectable, and the stars shine more brightly at night. You feel light and lofty as though you are floating through life, and your problems and challenges suddenly seem insignificant and easily surmountable. Your body feels alive, your skin tingles and you awaken in the morning with a smile on your face. You are suspended in a state of supreme delight.\n\nLove is a feeling and an action that arises from the most primal place within us. Making a relationship however, is a process that is learned. A relationship is the vessel that carries the precious cargo of love through time.\n\nRelationships are like a precious antique lamp; it takes a little polish and some effort to restore it to its valuable condition. A relationships love and luster will only improve with age if you continually give it the care that keeps it beautiful. But once you uncover its essential beauty it will bring you joy for years to come.\n\nAfter having said all this I want to say that you have to make the decision on your own, on one hand love is magic, on the other it's time tested relationship worked hard and furiously at.
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Love is omnipresence, 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.
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True Love, is perfect love.  It's what the Greeks defined as Agape and the Italians as 'sincere Amore.'  It is Love that does one never has to question.  Love that will sacrifice for another's happiness.  True Love is pure, kind, honest, and everlasting.  It retains hopes and can endure all things.  \n\nIt does exist; yes it seems to be rare. And being able to have this Love for another is a gift, but it can also be very difficult. The self sacrificing nature of Love can lead one to feeling foolish from time to time, especially when there is no love (True Love or otherwise) received in return. Still it's an amazing feeling to have.
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Love, I don't believe can be enjoyable, your talking about something that's physical. Sex.\n   Love is something of the heart, it's a feeling, an emotion. It's feeling all giddy inside when the one you love, hold your hand, kisses you in church as a profession of faith and love. Love is not blind but, all seeing, in the heart, the mind, overall love is universal.
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I don't think that is true love. True love is mutial between you and him. How do you feel about him? True love really is a very very deep emotion and usually very complicated. How do you feel about him? That's the question.
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Yes, love is real.The fact is its hard to find and those who search of it never find it...
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This goes back to the age old question; what is love? well this is my definition: Usually people say that they love someone because the other person makes them laugh; makes them feel comfortable; makes them smile and laugh; makes them feel complete - i tend to say that's not love - that's a self centred feeling. Love to me is when you want to be with the other person beause you want to make HIM/OR HER happy, you want to make THEM feel comfortable, make THEM smile and laugh; make THEM feel complete. Love is more of giving then wanting something from someone. A simple love test: If you took the brains of someone you think you love and put it on another body, would you feel the same? If you would then that's love, because you care and want to GIVE to the person - regardless of looks... more of what's in the inside. So, are you in love? I hope so :)
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Love is seeing a reflection of yourself in another person. Not a perfect reflection - a different one that is better in some ways and just different in others. Love is seeing what is wonderful about the world, and what *could* be.
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I love this question,.. \n\nOK,.. so there is \n1. 'loving' someone \n2. being 'in love' with someone.\n\nRemember this, you can LOVE anything, anyone at any given time,.. love is nothing more than the desire to have a feeling, it can be a feeling for material things, for a certain hair cut, for clothes, anything. the 'love' will usually disappear after the desire has been for-filled, kinda of like an affair, a summer fling...\n\nBut being in love is deep. There are no words that can describe that, that's something that you just know! Its something that you feel so deep inside it makes even your bones shake. Its pure, not artificial. Its not demanding, not destructive or misleading,.. its like being at peace all the time in your heart. Its forgiveness. Happiness, compromise, understanding and communication. It just fits!\n\nHope that helped
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I think love is something which is very positive, spiritual and which comes unconditionally, is a kind of emotion..\nIt never dies..It is always with you..nothing can be more beautiful than love..u know LOVE IS GOD..ismain hi sab kuch hai.. :)\nCheers..!!
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it's magical, but it's not magic...\n\nMagic is when your senses are tricked; love is real.
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The meaning of life is to love.
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well for me... i define love as something that is able to give you smiles and tears,joy and laughter,sorrow and heartache... it is about learning to give and accept a person for who and what he/she is... it is everything good and everything that is evil...
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I have not much other than my own experience (thirty something years) to tell you that love as some of the emotions that we have can be explained scientifically to a certain extent.  By definition, you are very correct on your belief; it is also important that you maintain an open mind (and most importantly, open heart) to consider other points of view.  I consider that 'true, profound, unconditional love' is all the same.  Unfortunately our usage of the word has become degradated and we refer to love as a lesser quality that it really is.  I do not think that the definition of love is affected by semantics as much as it is enriched by one's own experience.  My humble advice is spend less time defining it and more giving it since by doing that you will gain a broader understanding for sure.
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love is...picturing yourself growing old with that person, getting jitters in your stomach everytime you look at them or hear their voice, knowing you would die for them and knowing they would die for you, leaning on each other when times are bad, them not judging you and letting you cry on their shoulder and they wipe your tears and just hold you. loving each other for who they really are, inside and out, caring so bad it hurts. love is the most amazing thing you will never see, only feel.
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that's a unsolved mystery. love is defined by many people i would say it is when you know what makes you happy in a relationship and the person is doing everything they can to come close to that. same goes for you if you are in a relationship think if you are doing everything to come close to make the person happy. but look inside and see if you love yourself and why.
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Although clearly and consistently defining love is a difficult task, and often a subject of much debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more "pure" form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.\nIn ordinary use, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself.\n\nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love. Others call it a recently-invented abstraction, sometimes dating the "invention" to courtly Europe during or after the middle ages—though this is contradicted by the sizable body of ancient love poetry. Others maintain that love really exists, and is not an abstraction, but is undefinable, being a quantity which is spiritual or metaphysical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self-esteem" to another. Others attempt to define love by applying the definition to everyday life.\n\nCultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etc. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value", as opposed to relative value.\n>r