Love is the Question -- The Question is: What is Love?

Looking for answers. Not ONE answer or THE answer, but many answers. Why
should
there be many answers to one question? Because, for one thing, people are
so very
different from each other.

There isn't a mind that thinks like another mind. So why should one person
be the same
as another person?
There isn't a person who acts the same way as another person. So why
should one heart
feel like another heart?
People are different from each other. And even within the same person, love
is different,
depending on whether it is the brain or the heart that gives the answer.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

By Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is the difference between the brain and the heart . . . ?

There are some differences that are really simple, but others are harder
There is one main thing that both the heart and the brain don't understand.
As the heart feels things that the brain can't understand, the brain
understands things that
the heart can't feel.
There are also many different things that people can say about it, can think
about it, can
believe about it, and can hope it to be.
It is talked about in almost everything that you can imagine, songs, books
history,
images, even science.
What is it I’m talking about, you ask. Well, what else? Love, the number one
thing most
people want.

Example: "Love has 2 sides. The self-centered side and the other-centered
side. The
self-centered side says -- I love how I feel when I'm with you. I long to be with
you, to
spend time with you, to hold you. The other-centered side says -- I care about
you. I
long to please you and see you happy. Doing what's best for you is more
important to me
than what I want for myself. Love is a very good thing when both sides are in
harmony."
From: "Love has 2 Sides" by RoseDQ

Comments:
Love is grabbing a ropeswing on a tree over a river and pushing off and
enjoying the ride. It's wild, you have to trust, and it's a bit scary, and
underneath you are things that can sweep you away.
from The Jotter

"From my jormal: To Love someone was to see them through the eyes of
God."
from Kenosis23

Love is far and wide. It spreads, and its focused.

from duponthumanite

Augustine had some good words about love.Love is nuturing the Being in
each person.
from duponthumanite

And Plato has some good ones too. Especially in the Symposium. I had to
type them out from my programme.
from duponthumanite

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is proud. It
is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps now record
of wrongs. love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. it always
trusts, always hopes, always perseves. 1Corintians 13:4-7
from Rose

Love is friendship set on fire!(i heard someone say this once and liked the
idea of it!)
from Orwell_1984

:I have found the paradox, that if you love intill it hurts, there can be no more
hurt, only more love."-- Mother Teresa
from Orwell_1984

No matter how many beautiful words we read or write about love, none will
ever match what we feel, and there will never be an answer to the question,
the question deserves to remain unanswered:)
from LingLang

So, Ling, your saying that your wimping out just because the answer is
impossible?
from Kenosis23

"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
from Orwell_1984

when love is noun, it is idolatry..

from DanielEssman

For the poet, love is a form of self-adornment...

From DanielEssman

If The Jabberwocky were a love poem... what does "brilling" mean? and for
the matter,"gyre and gimble?"
DanielEssman

Love only knows one master...Love.

from DanielEssman

It is always open-hearted with kindness at its core. Love is gentle and

incredibly tender on one hand, and full of passion and swirling butterflies on
the other. It is life's ultimate pleasure-giver and the essence of humanity.
from Alika747

Suh a thought_ provoking question-and you're right, there are many answers.
Love defies the idea of encapsulation and it comes in so many forms. For it is
never a pasive feeling or state of being. it is an active verb, and noun- and is
as much a part of living and breathing as...living and breathing!
from Alika747

"...if someone says he loves me, but doesn't care deeply about me, doesn't
encourage me in my growth toward becoming the person i need to be, f he is
jealous of all other passions and people and interest that are part of who i
am, is that real love?..."
from Rose

Love is feeling respect care hurt pain death life sickness children honor care
helping sharing building a life time love works when two heats beat as one
Great write my friend. its controls all emotions for good and bad.
from godteaches

children family religion nations people men women

from godteaches

Better never leave your love as someone out there really cares and only the
heart knows...
from Shinning_star

Thanks everyone who contributed

A special thanks to Rose who mad the whole poem even better than its
original version. And who inspired other people to contributed with there
opinion and comments and so did Kenosis23.
Thank you two very much.!