What is love? Is it a feeling or experience? Or is it both? Love is an indescribable feeling that makes people do crazy things. Some of the most atrocious events in history have been caused due to this four letter word. Love is a feeling that binds us together. It makes us love our parents, our brothers and sisters, our wives and children. It cannot be described in the full context of the English language as it encompasses so many different things and attributes that it is hard to put this feeling into mere words.
Entire songs, poems and movies have been made over love. Love is a powerful feeling that can bend the human mind in more ways than one. We do some of the most beautiful as well as cruel things out of love. It is not possible to dictate love, and it is a force of nature that can bend reality. Love has this potent effect on humans because it releases a drug in our brain called dopamine, which is something we as humans are addicted. Regardless of the scientific attributes of love, love transcends all rationality, all boundaries and races and it is of a pure nature devoid of any negative emotion.
- “The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun.” – Charles de Leusse
- “You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.” – Unknown
- “I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher
- “What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.” – Unknown
- “I love you” begins by I, but it ends up by you.” – Charles de Leusse
- “There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.” – Leo Christopher
- “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” – Dr. Scott Peck, MD
- “Love is what we’re born with. Fear is what we learned here.” – Marianne Williamson
- “If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” – Richard Bach
- “You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch.” – Jeff Brown
- “You demonstrate love by giving it unconditionally to yourself. And as you do, you attract others into your life who are able to love you without conditions.” – Paul Ferrini
- “Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.” – Ram Dass
- “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty thru good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Love is content with the present; it hopes for the future and it doesn’t brood over the past. It is the day-in and out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else is there, it isn’t enough.” – Ann Landers
- “Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.” – Og Mandino
- “When you make loving others the story of your life, there’s never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Real love is freedom, and this is what you’ve been given by the Creator — the freedom to love and to choose your own path.” – Ophelius & the Circle of Seven
- “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
- “Whoso loves, believes the impossible.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo
- “Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
- “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” – Michael Jackson
- “I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.” – Pablo Neruda
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you … I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
- “Anyone can speak words, and anyone can think they love someone. But it is the love of someone who stays with you, the love of someone who believes in you, that is the true definition of love.” – David DeNotaris
- “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- “True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.” – Honore de Balzac
