What is Love???

[Tg. Thangno]

What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. Centuries have passed by, relationships have bloomed and so has love. But no one can give the proper definition of love. To some Love is friendship set on fire for others Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind. Love is patient, love is kind. It has no envy, nor it boasts itself and it is never proud. It rejoices over the evil and is the truth seeker. Love protects; preserves and hopes for the positive aspect of life. Always stand steadfast in love, not fall into it. It is like the dream of your matter of affection coming true.   Love can occur between two or more individuals. It bonds them and connects them in a unified link of trust, intimacy and interdependence. It enhances the relationship and comforts the soul. Love should be experienced and not just felt. The depth of love can not be measured. Look at the relationship between a mother and a child. The mother loves the child unconditionally and it can not be measured at all.   A different dimension can be attained between any relationships with the magic of love. Love can be created. You just need to focus on the goodness of the other person. If this can be done easily, then you can also love easily. And remember we all have some positive aspect in us, no matter how bad our deeds maybe. And as God said "Love all" Depending on context, love can be of different varieties. Romantic love is a deep, intense and unending. It shared on a very intimate and interpersonal and sexual relationship.  The term Platonic love, familial love and religious love are also matter of great affection. It is more of desire, preference and feelings. The meaning of love will change with each different relationship and depends more on its concept of depth, versatility, and complexity. But at times the very existence of love is questioned. Some say it is false and meaningless. It says that it never exist, because there has been many instances of hatred and brutality in relationships. The history of our world has witnessed many such events. There has been hatred between brothers, parents and children, sibling rivalry and spouses have failed each other. Friends have betrayed each other; the son has killed his parents for the throne, the count is endless. Even the modern generation is also facing with such dilemmas everyday. But "love" is not responsible for that. It is us, the people, who have forgotten the meaning of love and have undertaken such gruesome apathy. In the past the study of philosophy and religion has done many speculations on the phenomenon of love. But love has always ruled, in music, poetry, paintings, sculptor and literature. Psychology has also done lot of dissection to the essence of love, just like what biology, anthropology and neuroscience has also done to it. Psychology portrays love as a cognitive phenomenon with a social cause. It is said to have three components in the book of psychology: Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion. Also, in an ancient proverb love is defined as a high form of tolerance. And this view has been accepted and advocated by both philosophers and scholars.   Love also includes compatibility. But it is more of journey to the unknown when the concept of compatibility comes into picture. Maybe the person whom we see in front of us, may be least compatible than the person who is miles away. We might talk to each other and portray that we love each other, but practically we do not end up into any relationship. Also in compatibility, the key is to think about the long term successful relationship, not a short journey. We need to understand each other and must always remember that no body is perfect. Be together, share your joy and sorrow, understand each other, provide space to each other, but always be there for each others need. And surely love will blossom to strengthen your relationship with your matter of affection.

 

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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Random Thoughts and Reflections on Love

How do you define love?

Some say it's mysterious, magical, complex, difficult, imaginary, thought-provoking, inspirational, intuitional, joyous, immeasurable, ecstasy, and undefinable. Perhaps.

In one of Dr. John Gray's audio cassettes he defines love as follows: "Love is a feeling directed at someone which acknowledges their goodness."

On the same cassette, he refers to the definition by M. Scott Peck: "The willful intent to serve the well being of another."

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. - 1 Corinthians 13:5-7

My favorite is by Paramahansa Yogananda: "To describe love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love."

Love itself is a universal experience. Yet, every individual occurrence - while perhaps bound by a common thread - seems absolutely unique. Love is what love is! To everyone it expresses itself differently.

 

Love is the answer to "all" questions!

It is important to stand in Love, not fall into it.

Love is waking up to find the object of your affection in the dream you were having asleep on your shoulder.

Could it be that Love is a story that can never be fully expressed?

• Love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen

• Love is a bond or connection between two people that results in trust, intimacy, and an interdependence that enhances both partners.

• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Leo Buscaglia

Making Love is the highest level and the most loving way we can physically express or demonstrate our Love for our love partner. Everyone knows that the sexual experience can be the single most loving, most exciting, most powerful, most exhilarating, most renewing, most energizing, most affirming, most intimate, most uniting, most stress-relieving, most recreative physical experience of which humans are capable.

• Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor

• If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

• When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared they won't Love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only do they still Love you, they Love you even more. - Matthew - age 7

• Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day. - Mary Ann - age 4

• Logic says everything in this world has a cause and an effect. True Love is the only feeling which is its own cause and its own effect. It is something illogical and yet above all logic. I Love her because I Love her, and I Love her so I Love her. - Prateek Kumar Singh

• Love is comforting someone in need of Love and having them know that somebody cares.

• Love is looking past imperfections in your partner and seeing the beautiful person inside. True love seeks the happiness and well being of your partner. Love expresses itself in the mutual respect you demonstrate to your partner.

Guys, This tis for you.

• Love is letting your partner have the TV remote for 30 days!

• Love must be experienced. Its meaning is infinite and can never be totally defined.

• The opposite of Love is fear. Think about it.

• There is no fear in Love; but perfect love casts out fear. - Bible, 1 John 4:18

• God is love.

• Love is loving someone without expecting anything in return; no judgments, no restrictions; no limitations; no expectations!

• True Love is the nature of bliss.

• Love is expressed when you are being someone who loves someone for who they are, not who you think they should be.

• Love is embracing differences and discovering ways in which to build a common lifestyle, share decision-making, and taking equal responsibility for the results.

• I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . I was either in Love or I had smallpox. - Woody Allen

• Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love. - St. Bernard 1090-1153, French Theologian and Reformer

• Teach only Love for that is what you are. - A Course In Miracles

• Love is a decision.

If you want Love, you must first Love. Love begets Love. You cannot deliver from an empty wagon. You must first learn to Love yourself before you can give Love.

• "If you Loved me, you would. . ." Not! Love is not manipulative. It must never be used to get others to do what you want. When you Love someone you never ask them to sacrifice a part of themselves in the name of Love. This form of manipulation contaminates our Love for another.

• Can't Buy Me Love! - The Beatles

• Love is to like with a great intensity.

• True love has a foundation of integrity, respect, faith and trust. Love is the force that brings about unity and harmony.

• Celebrate Love! - Larry James

• Although love is at the root of our basic nature, Love for another human being must be cultivated. It takes time for Love to mature.

• Is your love free and unconditional, or is it mixed with various needs, conditions and demands from your partner?

• Love is embracing differences and discovering ways in which to build a common lifestyle, share decision-making, and take equal responsibility for the results.

• The road to self-discovery is paved with Love.

• Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  

• Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. - Gary Zukav

• Love has no meaning other than the meaning "we" give it.

• Perhaps. . . Love just Is. While in its allness and in its nothingness, all we need to do is simply let it Be.

• Robert Heinlein in "Stranger in a Strange Land" said, Love is. . . "That condition whereby the happiness of another is essential to your own."
  

• "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." - Tom Robbins

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Italian - Ti voglio bene (if it's a friend, or relative) Japanese - Ai shite imasu Japanese - Aishiteru Japanese - Kimi o ai shiteru Japanese - Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu Javanese - Kulo tresno Javanese - watashi wa anata ga suki desu Kiswahili - Nakupenda Klingon - Qabang Klingon - QaparHa' (depends from where you are in the galaxy) Korean - Tangshin-i cho-a-yo Korean - Sarang Heyo Korean - Tangsinul sarang ha yo Korean - Nanun tongshinun sarang hamnida Kurdish - Asektem Kurdish - Ez te hezdikhem Kyrgyz - Men seni suyom Lao - Khoi huk chau Latin - Ego Te amo (ego, for emphasis) Latin - Te amo Latin - Vos amo Latvian - Es tevi Mlu (s teh-vih me-lu) Lebanese - Bahibak Lingala - Nalingi yo Lithuanian - Tave myliu (ta-ve mee-lyu) Luo - Aheri Madrid lingo - Me molas, tronca Malay - Saya cintamu Malay - Saya sayangmu Malay (Indonesian) - Aku sayang enkow Malay (Indonesian) - Sayah Chantikan Awah Mandarin - Wo ai ni Mingo - Kanu�hkwa'sh�' (Mingo is an Iroquoian language native to the areas of western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia) Mohawk - Konoronhkwa Mohawk - Kanbhik Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni Ndebele - Niyakutanda Nepali - Ma timilai maya garchu Nepali - Ma timilai man parauchu New Zealand (Maoris) - Te Arohanui Nigeria - Ina sonki (Hausa) Norwegian - Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk) Norwegian - Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) (pronounced: yai elske dai) Ojibwe - Gi zah gin Osetian - Aez dae warzyn Pakistani - Muje se mu habbat hai Pakistan (NWFP) & Afghanistan - Mo Tho Sara Meena Dha Persian - Tora dost daram Persian - Aseketem Persian - Doo-set daaram Pig Latin - Ie ovele ouye or Iay ovlay ouyay Polish - Kocham Cie Polish - Ja cie kocham Polish - Kocham Ciebie Polish - Ja Ciebie Kocham Portuguese - Amo-te Pushto - Za tha sara meena kawam Romanian - Te iubesc Russian - Ya vas lyublyu Russian (Malincaya) - Ya Tibieh Lublue Russian - Y'a liou-bliou tibya Russian - Ya vac loobyoo Russian - Ya tebya loobyoo Russian - Ya l'ubl'u t'ebya Russian - Ju ljublju tebja! Russian - Ljublju tebja Russian - Ya lyublyu tebya Russian - Ya polubeel s'tebya Russian - Ya tebya ljublju Samoan - Ou te alofa outou Serbian - Lubim te Serbocroatian - Volim te Shona - Ndinokuda Sinhalese - Mama oyata adarei Sioux (Lakota) - Techi 'hila Sioux (Lakota) - Techihhila Slovak - lubim ta Slovene - Ljubim te Somali - Wankudja'alahai Spanish - Te amo (I love you) Spanish - Te quiero (I really, really care for you) Srilankan - Mama Oyata Arderyi Sudanese (Bari) - Nan nyanyar do ( I love you) Sudanese (Bari) - Nan nyanyar do parik ( I love you very much ) Swahili - Mimi nakupenda Swahili - Ninapenda wewe Swahili - Naku penda (followed by the person's name) Swedish - Jag alskar dig Swedish - Iaj Alskar Dej Swiss-German - Ch'ha di ga"rn Syrian/Lebanes - Bhebbek (to a female) Syrian/Lebanes - Bhebbak (to a male) Tahitian - Ua Here Vau la Oe Tajik - Mantodro esme deram Tamil - Naan unni kathilikaran Tamil - Ni yaanai kaadli karen Taiwanese - Ngua ai di or Wa ga ei li Tcheque - Miluji te Telugu - Neenu ninnu pra'mistu'nnanu Telugu (India) - Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu Thai - Ch'an Rak Khun Thai - Phom Rak Khun Thai - Pom rak khun Thai - Charn Ruck Ter Tibetan - Khyod-la cags-so Tunisian - Ha eh bak Turkish - Seni seviyorum Ukrainian - Ja Tebe lublu Urdu - Mujge tumae mahabbat hai Uzbek - Man sani sevaman Vietnamese - Toi yeu em Vietnamese - Anh yeu em (male to female) Vietnamese - Em yeu anh" (female to male) Vlaams - Ik hue van ye Welsh - Rwy'n dy garu di Welsh - Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (Chwi) Yiddish - Ich libe dich Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh lib Yugoslavian - Ya te volim Zazi - Ezhele hezdege Zulu - Ngiyakuthanda Zuni - Tom ho' ichema

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