What is love?

What is love?

Do any of us really know what love is? Is love a certain thing or feeling to each person? Does everyone feel love in the same way? How do you know a person is worthy of your love? Can you love 2 people at the same time? Can you stop yourself from loving someone you know is all wrong for you? Where does love come from? Where does it live? Can you invite love into your life? Can you expel it from your life? How do you keep love alive? How do you express love? How can you tell that you really love someone or for that matter that they really love you? Is it in your kiss? Is it in your eyes? Is it in your hug? Is it that nauseating feeling you get when you see the object of your love? Is it that leap your heart makes everytime you talk to that person? Do you have a test which you administer to a person to confirm if they really love you? How do you know how much someone loves you? Love is a gamble isn't it? You lose everything or you win nothing!
I believe in love…but I want proof that love exists!! Please comment.

Famous quotes on love…..

"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

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde
"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

11/20/07...I guess I am not the only one pondering love. Amherst Professor Ilan Stavans is doing it too....AND he wrote a book about it.


Love and Language by Ilan Stavans & Veronica Albin

“In this lively, erudite conversation Stavans ranges over literature, etymology, philosophy, mythology, and sexuality. The heart of his investigation is how language is used to convey emotion, and how literature is ''a form of empathy'' and ''inspired testimony'' that connects us with the human experience. Stavans generously shares not only his considerable learning, but his own experience, making this book a unique exploration of love and language.”—Fred R. Shapiro, Editor, Yale Book of Quotations