Why do we associate love with the heart?
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because when you are in love you feel expansive in the heart region, and when you have a heart break, it's the same thing.
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Love to me means a feeling that is so strong that it can make even the most stubborn people appologize.  It makes your heart skip a beat when you think about that special person.  Its the feeling of not getting enough sleep at night because you are still smiling and on a high from being with that person.  Love is also being able to talk to that person for hours and never getting bored.  Knowing how the person feels about something and working to make the other persons life better.  Its putting all of their wants and needs infront of your own.  I know its cliche but if you are in love than you know it.  Because you want to be with that person every second of everyday not because of the physical but because of how you feel when your around him/her.  Its deffinitly emotional and its not that easy to tell the two apart.
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Lovin by heart: You love sentimentally -- You think you lover is perfect, and if he/she has negative traits, you just tend to ignore them, you tend to idealize your sweetheart. The love is strong, so intense, and honest, yet it could be blind.\nLovin by mind: You love rationally -- You think your lover is good enough, and if he/she has negative traits, you tend to accept and live with them, you tend to turn the idealization into reality. The love is firm, cuz you learn to accept each other
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The heart is more important.
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The first thing for us is we look into eachothers eyes and smile at one another.  Sometimes I'll wake up to him putting his head on my chest, or to him pulling me closer to him and I lay my head on his chest.  Love is not a feeling or thought, its an act.  The way we are affectionate is how our love manifests itself.  Love also manifests when we fall asleep together at night.  He shows up in my dreams, its funny because he never talks in my dreams, he's just there, and I can see him.  Soemtimes I wake and think how grateful I am for another day to be with him, and sometimes I think, "Time to brush my teeth.  God please make him brush his quickly!!"
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The heart simply pumps the blood to supply the brain with "power." The heart cannot live without the brain, and the brain cannot live without the heart. Along these lines of thinking, that the two work in perfect tandem, I believe that is why we say that some emotions come from the heart. \n\nUsually, we associate sentimental or sensual emotions with the heart and knowledge or intelligence/common sense with the brain, when really, they all originate in the brain. But I think it's a great metaphor to indicate emphasis on your feelings when you are trying to communicate how you feel. This heart vs. brain thing seems to be a phenonmenon across cultures and languages. \n\nJust a side note: the ancient egyptians thought that the heart was the main thinking and reasoning organ of the body so this was one of the only organs that they would leave IN the body during mummification. They would extract other organs that they felt weren't necessary for the afterlife (liver, kidneys....and the brain). They thought that the heart was the essential organ so that they could function in the afterlife.
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What's that have to do with love?
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the shakespeare play "romeo and juliet" was based on love, which can be linked to the heart, which is sometimes thought of as the "love muscle"
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Because when you are in love,and excited to be with your love your heart races, and when you get hurt, your heart feels it.
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It sounds more special when you say, "I love you from the bottom of my heart.."  Because heart signifies life and it is just like saying, "You're my life.."  I don't know but that's what I think. :)
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Based on what I think love is ... I think it's a connection between both.\n\nTrue 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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We DON'T have to. It happens naturally. LOVE is what rules the world. That's the connection we all have with one another. We, human beings, at the end, ALL we want is to be LOVED.
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Wow, this is a hard one! Love is putting that persons needs ahead of yours! Love is feeling something so deep in your heart, that you are about to burst! Love is missing a smell, a look , a touch and never being able to replace it. Love is holding your grandchild for the first time. Love is crying when your child goes to school the first day and leaves you.Love is your cat sitting on your lap and purring so contently. Love is opening your heart to all the possibilities of another human being touching your life in even the smallest way. Love is giving with no expectations. Love is painful and lonely. Love is full of laughter and joy! Love is life and without it, nothing is worth living!
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The purpose of life is to love.
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I do to a degree. Love is very powerful and moves people to do the impossible. I believe that today mankind confuses love. Especially in the english language. We say I love my dog , I love chocolate, I love my wife, I love my parents, etc. However we do not love those things all on the same level. There is no other way to say it in English. So it is true there are different levels of love. There is a level in Greek called, "Agape". This is the highest level there is. God has it for mankind.The kind we have for God. Christ commanded us to have it for one another. This form of love allows you to even love your enemies. Imagine that able to love your enemies. It is very difficult to show this kind of love because it is a perfect bond of love. We are not perfect. Some people are able to come close. Yet only God is able to demonstrate it perfectly since he is perfect. IMagine though if all the world tried to apply it what a better world we would live in. No more divorce.
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Love is much more than S** and yet it needs much more than mere looking into each other's eyes and living by it...Heart aches when you are not with the one you love and it leaps with joy, you feel those butterflies fluttering inside when u see the one you love...\nSexual part of love is very important because the best way to show you love someone completely is by sharing the only thing you really possess i.e. yourself with him or her completely...
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LOVE IS PUTTING SOMEONE ELSE'S NEEDS AND WANTS IN FRONT OF YOUR OWN. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING YOU THINK ABOUT IF THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT THIS PERSON IN A GOOD OR BAD WAY. NOT WANTING THAT PERSON TO BE UNHAPPY. WHEN YOU ARE NOT WITH THAT PERSON YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT THEM AND WONDERING WHAT THEY ARE DOING EVEN MISSING THEM WHEN THE TWO OF YOU HAVE ONLY BEEN APART A FEW HOURS. YOUR HEART STARTS TO RACE WHEN YOU SEE THAT PERSON. YOUR HEART, MIND BODY AND SOUL JUST HAS THIS FEELING OF FULFILLMENT LIKE NOW YOU HAVE THIS FEELING OF COMPLETION SINCE YOU MET THIS PERSON.