that is a good question

"What is love? Bizzy don't hurt me no more"

That is the best answer.

a lie. also, romance is dead.

@om nom nom dude, I clearly remember you telling me once that poo is love

i think one can only define love by loving.

also i have always liked the following quote: "Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free."

well, poo is a lie. romance is still dead.

@om nom nom AH! That is a cop out!

And with all due respect to the topic, I'm not sure I have the words for my definition. There are different kinds of love to consider. It's such a large intimidating topic

i really want to answer this, but i just can't give a well rounded definition.

Love is a permanant stain on the linen that is my life.

there was a run on my love, but I started taking immodium and hopefully I'll be able to save some now.

i can't speak for anyone else. but me, i'm mostly in agreement with noms.

except i think that romance is the lie and infatuation is a nice drug with some scary fine print. love exists on its own, and if you tend it it can be directed just about anywhere. i go around all the time with all these love feelings in me that are just generated by existing in the world, or whatever, and the fact that i currently choose to aim them at cats, works of fiction, and the tv show "wishbone" is probably not the worst choice, if not the best one, either.

i do want to be known deeply. i believe that in my case, this cannot coexist with b

Love is a fly struggling to break free from the cobwebs of my mind

oops that meant to continue:

i believe that in my case, this cannot coexist with being loved. i would feel safer directing my own love feelings at someone who didn't or couldn't love me back. and didn't lie about it.

i do feel a little sorry for whoever ends up loved by me.

yes, this makes A LOT of sense for me as well. I'm not surprised.

Love is like a box of chocolates. everything looks great when you open up the box but as it turns out most of the peices of chocolate have been gouged out from the bottom.

Love is accepting someone for everything that they are, and supporting their dreams, and goals. Being there of help them up if they fall. It is a commitment. It is a gain, and a sacrifice.
It can make your heart feel light and heavy at the same time. It can make your stomach feel like it is full of butterflies. That is my thoughts on love present time. It is wanting to grow together, and to learn together, and allowing each other to do the same, but independently . Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me."

If this was asked when I was much younger and naive, I would probably either confuse the word love with horny or pain.

I like Bedazzler's answer a lot. My own definition would include many of the same sentiments.

It is encouragement, it is a promise (often unspoken) to share the same journey. It is sharing secrets no one else gets to know. It is being willing to put another's happiness before your own. It is creating a space within yourself for another person, and carrying them with you.

It is also the most important thing, as frail finite people, that one person can give another. That is not to be taken likely.

i like Bedazzler's answer a lot with respect to how I work my love. I love my horses even though they are difficult to work with and not necessarily the safest horses to work around, but I am constantly concerned with how their body feel and how I'm allowing for them to have a high quality of life- no matter what they thing of it, I want them to have the best and most natural opportunities to feel peace and calmness. I care not at all for what they thing of me because i know I'm right and that is how i love. and surprisingly enough, they eventually come around. some time after adolescence.

And how I approach the love I have for my teachers (who are horses) and my students (who are also horses) I have that same kind of love for the object of my desire. it's unconditional. I'm just wired that way. i will do my best to make my subject's life progressive in the direction that he/she wants to take and to guide them on that trail to a greater sense of peace and inner tranquility. that is as closest as we can reach towards happiness. we can never get the ultimate inner peace and tranquility in life, but the road to discovery is a NECESSARY STEP IN changing who you are in A WAY that takes you to a further understanding of how things work. it is very much part of the road to enlightenment. you pick your path, and you stick on it, and you take it out as ffffaaaaarrrr as you can possibly go... AND THEN IT WILL CHANGE YOU AS A PERSON.you wont know what it is until it happens to you

and the love we have that we cannot begin to comprehend ...

we must take it apart to analyze the rout it takes i

totally

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spot-on

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