The Story of Definition Of Love

The following are a few definitions and quotes about love. Perhaps you have your own definition of love?

A feeling of strong or constant affection for a person. - Merriam-Webster

The act of caring and giving to someone else. Having someone's best interest and well being as a priority in your life. To truly love is a very selfless act. - Urban Dictionary

"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one object of love. . . . If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else 'I love you,' I must be able to say, 'I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself." - Erich Fromm

"When a man and women with significant spiritual and psychological affinities encounter each other and fall in love, if they have evolved beyond the level of problems and difficulties, if they are beyond the level of merely struggling to make their relationship 'work' then romantic love becomes the pathway not only to sexual and emotional happiness but also to the higher reaches of human growth. It becomes a context for a continuing encounter with the self, through the process of interaction with another self. Two consciousnesses, each dedicated to personal evolution, can provide an extraordinary stimulus and challenge to the other. Then ecstasy can become a way of life. Romantic love is not a myth waiting to be discarded, but, for most of us, a discovery waiting to be born." - Nathaniel Branden

"I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or an other's spiritual growth." - M. Scott Peck

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, to the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. - Wikipedia

It has been said that Lust is the desire for the body, the flesh, immediate gratification.

Love is the desire for the heart and soul, long-term satisfaction.

"Lust causes the brain to produce the same reaction as if on cocaine or speed. Lust really is like a drug, it leaves you wanting more." -Dr. Jon Marsden, Director of the National Addiction Center

"To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love."

"Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love."

"Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person."

"The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable. Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Love



Some of us need to hear this, some of us need to say it: You are Loved...!!!