What is LOVE ???

Any idea what is Love? I don't think Love is something that can by explained easily by words or even just by felt. It should be experienced.

So what is LOVE?

Many years back, I made a photo-journal to my wife to express my love for her... in it, I have include some explanation about Love. As I was looking at it, I think it is quite interesting and worth to share it...

Below is an extract from the photo-journal....

BY KIDS :

1. Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is the most handsome man in the world.

2. Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, and then he wears it everyday.

3. Love is when you go out to eat, give somebody most of your French Fries without making them give you any of theirs.

... etc Interesting meaning by Kids?

Then as we grow older, we thought we have a better understanding about Love...


BY MAN :

Love is the quiet and understanding and mature acceptance of imperfection. It is real. It gives you strength and grows beyond you - to bolster your beloved. You are warmed by their presence, even when they are away. Miles do not separate you. You have so many wonderful little films in your head that you keep replying. But near or far, you know they are yours and you can wait.

Love means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened. They feel your trust, and it makes them even more trustworthy.

Love makes you feel whole. It completes the circle. It fills the empty space in your heart. Love is elevating. It lifts you up. It makes you look up. It makes you think up. It makes you a better person than you were before. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you don't have. If there is no love in your life, whatever else there is has a lot less meaning.


BY GOD :

Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].

- 1 Corinthians 13:4 -

(Think this is really the true Love of all - Agape Love)


BY THADDEUS :

Love is happy when you smile. Love is sad when you cry. Love is making you happy when you moody. Love is being able to kiss and hug you. Love is being able to "sai yang" you when you sad. Love is being able to give what you desire. Love is being able to take what you give. Love is to wear similar type of attire to attend function with you. Love is being about sharing in regardless of how much we have. Love is being able to hold your hand when we are together. Love is being able to trust each other in all circumstances. Love is being able to worship our GOD together. Love is all about being with you.


Okay, I know someone out there might be laughing at my explanation... nevertheless, to me Love is simple but at times it is really tough to achieve. It is just like the Agape Love GOD is talking about. How many of us can achieve that? We are always move by our thoughts, people's talking, feeling, emotion...


Recently I search thru the net again and got some Love Quotation by others which I think it is quite good...


"Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant

(truly it is a Blessing to Bless than to be Blessed)

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker
(Well, I think there is a certain measurement to it... it depend on the context of the topic but I do agreed to it.)

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Agreed... without Love, why are we here in this place?)

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker
"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud
(Amen. God is Good, All the time !!!)

Ok... this one is the real interesting one... deep... or...

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen

Lastly, by me again...

To be able to Love is what GOD makes us to be. But to Love or not to Love is really depends on how much you know Love is. - Thaddeus