It's the season to be jolly and the season to keep the love flowing Let's Keep this going. If you didn't comment this yet, do it. If you know someone who hasn't seen it, show it to em here: [link] . OUR COLLECTIVE DEFINITION OF LOVE MUST KEEP EXPANDING

Okay, so I'm getting back to this, putting the comments in here again, since I'm way behind on that. I wish i could post them all to my page in a widget, but i dont think i can D: Oh well, they'll be here.

post this [link] in your journal, and your signature if you want to support. maybe this might actually work out and we'll have a HUGE definition of love lol

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~littopampam

Love ...Haha wow love I must say is a really interesting feeling in my opinion at least.
When I talk to this person I know it's a cliche to say but they make my heart literaly pump faster and harder yet slower.I feel like time stops and things are just perfect.Though we might get in fights and all we get through them. Love means doing ANYTHING you can for the other person to make them happy.
When I hear people say "if they love you they won't ever make you cry no matter what" I say thats completely false. You gotta cry at least once because of them right? either they did something to shock the hell out of you or they did something completely epic that you wont ever forget kinda thing.
anyway back to where I was getting me and my love talked about this whole thing. We talked about how we both felt like physically and emotionally and mentally when we are around each other or just talking online. My throat clogs and I get a loss of words. I can act like me and act stupid and silly and they wont judge me.We are comfortable with making fun of each other but not over doing it. Love means teaching each other. Always keeping them in mind. Showing you love them rather then just saying it. Pouring your heart out. Feeling safe when they hold you when they're around you. you fight every second to get them back when you mess up because you know you can;t live without them. You beg for them and make yourself look like a fool but you don't care because you know that if your with them everything is gonna be ok. Love makes the world go round

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~Polursine

"Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing"
"Love Is A Battlefield"
"What's Love Got To Do With It?"

We had to define "love" last year for our English Studies class, right before we began poetry. I wrote it down somewhere, but I can't find it

Something along the lines of;
"Love is a mutual agreement of compassion, dedication and (something else here) that tethers hearts, minds and bodies physically and mentally, with an unbreakable bond in which the participants for forever entangled in the ropes"

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~GaiaDragoness

I think love is when you like someone so much, you just want to be with them forever, or something...
But there are lots of different kinds of love, like the love of an animal, that of a family member, a piece of art, or that special person.

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~Masalove

The ChaiMasalove dictionary says:
Love [noun]
1. The selfless caring and cherishing of another being.
2. What little girls think they have about Zac Efron/Jonas Brothers/Rob Pattinson but fail epically at having this thing called 'love'.
3. Dolphin!
4. What Korey had surging through the lines of his soul when he wrote this article, good on you.

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*AlexGroseth

Perfect love is within your reach! Only you have to remove jealousy, expectations, prejudices and greed from what it is that YOU call love first.

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~MiliescentCurse

i think love is when you still give love to someone even if hes not interested

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=PikachuFanatica

Love is where one gives another happiness and security. It can between two guys (hence, guy love... lol, from Scrubs), two girls (girl love, but not necessarily lesbian love), or a guy and a girl.

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*ImprisonedBeauty

Love is something that cannot be described with mere words.
You just understand it when you feel it, and it is the greatest feeling known to mankind.

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~Muttykins

Love... to me, like the romantic kind, is the thing that makes your inards feel like they're rotting. Not trying to be morbid, but everything inside feels soft and squishy and sagging; making you feel light. XD; It can be between anyone. Sounds revolting, but very lovely.

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~Lucarah

Love is what kindness makes. and what takes away tears.
love is something beyond explanation. its a mental/physical selfless acceptance of someone. it brings care, security, and chains of happiness.

But really... we can only say this much about love.

we can definitely show more.

Love breeds sacrifice.

and sometimes it hurts.

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!OIXstudios

LOVE IS GIVING TO ANOTHER PEARSON THE POWER TO MAKE YOU A TERRIBLE HURT, WAITING THAT HE OR SHE DOESN'T DO IT

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*Tyt0Alba

Love is placing the interests and feelings of others above your own.

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=hat-man

love is the world

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~ranbassi

Sorry truly unconditional love is undefinable. It is especially using the medium of language. But really for most people 'love' is whatever they want it to mean. For me I recognise it as something truly undefinable.

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~Snowangel22

love is passion. And when people find true love, its 4ever and ever

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=City-of-Acedia

Love For Me:

Just another excuse to go and wreck something that I always wanted to be.

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~Fallencomrade2008

Love is the great addiction to a person on a more than emotional level. You can't overdose on the true feeling of love and you can not excape it. You need it. you breath it taste it and see it in your lovers eyes. You catch and wipe away the tear from the eyes that reflect your every emotion. I can honestly say i have felt lust and been in love. I'm knee deep in the mistakes of my past and i'm running twards my one true love. I have no fear of the future because of the security i find in her waiting arms.

Time is short and so is life, i could spend it all writing here today but alas i think i shall pass this along to my one and only star girl my love my life my Nikki. Look for her post because i'm sure that she will compleat every thought that i had, she makes me more than whole. She is more than my other half. I love her.

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~snickers4862

Love can never be hidden your teachers will see it in the class. Your friends will see it down the hall ways and your family will enjoy it because they see you being happy. For me love can not be controlled or thrown out the door because it is something that not a lot of people can embrace. I have gone through an up hill battle with love but i have never given up on it. Love is something that is deep with in your heart...that makes you care for that one person that fly's you over the clouds and makes smile even though your in pain...that every argument is resolved with a sorry and i love you...where you can spend day after day with him and never change your feeling or yet have it grow.

Nothing could make me stop loving my true love. We have been through so much together and that is what makes our love unstoppable. we want to see each other exceed and we challenge each other to be better. I will never forget that love is too good to waste and it is not worth wasting your time to trying to get over it instead of embracing it....Dalton I love you and you are my superman.

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*maecheneb

Love-

When humans defy nature and actually create something immortal. ^^

Love is the only emotion that lasts an eternity, I think. ^^ If what you feel lasts always, then it's love. ^^

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~CraziMaddi

love: when you can talk to someone for three hours, and still miss them five minutes after they've left.

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=KneelingGlory

Love is the ability to breathe fire and live;
to face the torment of a thousand needles
drilling a million holes each into the same
square of skin; the gouge is a constellation
with an epic tale that's every brand of truth.

Love is the knowledge I'll be broken
by familiar hands and restored by
familiar arms, & lips, & voice-patterns.

Love is a metaphor for the inexpressable
god in each of us; humanity's greatness
manifested in a flame, licking
hollow spaces in our yawning caverns.

Love is one soul seeking the fingertips
of another soul seeking the fingertips
of another soul seeking reparations
for its mundane sins.

Love is the first breath, the last breath
each breath between; the prayers upon
parents' lips on the first day of school,
at graduation, on twenty-first birthdays,
on wedding days and in secret

accompanied by tears and fears
and depthless regret.

Love is the only wish
I've ever hung upon a star,
and it is always a wish for you.

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~strawberryblend

Love is probably the reason I wake up (and stay awake) at certain, sometimes weird, hours of the day to talk to that certain someone.

Perhaps it is also love that can awaken strange emotions and make you experience things you never thought you could possibly feel.

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=xcassedega

Love is being able to be yourself around someone.
Being able to laugh, and snort when your laughing without being embarrased.
Being able to fart and burp around them and not say 'excuse me'
Be able to go out in your pajamas your hair a mess.
Being able to do all the stupid things you cant do around anyone else.
When your awake, they are all you think about.
When your asleep, they are all you dream about.


Thats love in a nutshell

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~laynaxKiSSEd

i can`t define LOVE;;
the feeling of BEING IN LOVE,
i think its like everytime you see that person,
or hear this person`s NAME,
or see a text or call from them-
you get those butterflies no matter how long you`ve been together;
or just talking.

thats how it is with me;
but i cant speak for everyone.

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~Zirota

Erg... My definition probably is going to sound odd, and I'll try to make it as literal as possible (It's easy to end up saying metaphors with this kind of stuff, yet you find out that what you think your metaphor means, ends up meaning something completely different to someone else) anyways...

I agree on some of the stuff your saying, no maximum no minimum, doing something without the obligation to. That is why, I believe it is not limited to being inspired by a Human, it can be brought upon from an animal, a picture, a object, maybe by the dream you had last night even. So what exactly is it? Well if I had to define it to something short it would be... Motivation, I believe every emotion bring upon motivation to do something, weather it's Fear that causes you to flee, even sometimes when you don't exactly know what you are running from. Hate maybe, making you want to destroy, ah but, I'm generalizing here, the reason it's undefinable is because each person will be cause to do different things with each emotion, someone who is Angry might use that to Fight, yet at the same time someone else might use to to create, such as a painting to express how they define that emotion. Everything from the cause of the emotion to the result of the emotion is different depending on the person.

But for me, Love makes itself very separated from the other emotions, to me, it makes me want to do something amazing, it makes me want to do things that in any other state of mind I would never want to do (Not destructive things of course), it's kinda like how you may have urge to fly and, when feeling (or are in) Love, well it feels like it's possible sometimes. Sometimes it's the thing I have to look forward to feeling. Because it isn't always going to be permanent, sometimes it goes off and on and I need to remind myself just exactly what made me feel that way to begin with.

Anyways when I simply define it to something general it becomes "Love: Motivation/Inspiration - It's a trigger - It's Cause can be brought on by Anything/Anyone, Effects may vary."

Lol, sounds odd I know. xD

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*bookbutterfly

Love is sacrifice, one for the other. So loving someone that you would give your all, your last breath, your last drop of blood, your last atom for their benefit. Love glories in seeing its beloved in the best possible position.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not boast, it is not prideful, it is not jealous. It seeks all things, hopes all things, and believes all things good of its object.

Love is God come down as flesh to die for us while we were yet sinners.

Love never fails.

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~FenderK

love is the unpredictable virus that spreads through one's body and is the hardest thing to get over ...
the phrase "falling in love" is ridiculous because how can you fall into soemthing that's intangible? and if you fall in love does that mean you have to climb out of it?

love i ssomething wonderful, amazing, new, and never ending ... you may think that you can stop loving a person but you cant ... it's impossible ... once you love them you'll never stop ... it may not be as strong as time goes on but you still love them

love is something not meant for those who only want lust ... love must be wanted and recieved ... love can heal and the lack of love can destroy ... for love is not pain, or hurt, or anything evil for love is everything good and only the lack of love, the stealing of love, the taking away of love is pain, hurt, and everything evil ...

love is a simple four letter word that without the world would have no entertainment and our movies would be very boring ... romance novelists would be no more and the hopeless romantics (like myself) would have to find something else to live for ...

love is complicated and more than anyone can define or even compare or imagine ...

love is love and can't be said any other way

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!kitkat-xO

Loving someone is.. when they can hurt you over and over again, and you will just keep crawling back to them, knowing full well that you're going to fall harder than you did before. Loving someone is when you cannot physically live a day without talking to them... when not talking to them will make your life hell.
i would just like to point out that i never used to believe in love. Then I met this boy, he changed my mind.

aannd heres a quote for you;

"Sometimes we love people so much
that we have to be numb to it.
Because if we actually felt how much
we love them, it would kill us.
That doesn't make you a bad person ;
It just means your heart's too big."
- Riding in Cars with Boys

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~Arty-Rile-Ditch

Love is all the excuse a person needs to hurt you more than you could believe.
Love is the tool by which people can bring you to your knees without touching you.
Love is the act of giving your life to someone else to tear apart as they wish.
But, above all this, love is the power which allows you to forgive all this.

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*FoggyPebble

There's the real one, and then there's the.. heart, the ego, which seems to typically express itself in ironic imagery. Everybody in the head wishes to express themselves, and the ego is always the most eager to. There.

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~SoBo113

For me, love is the feeling I get when I look at someone who I'm close to and know that I want to spend my life with them and couldn't survive without them,

Now I feel all mushy

Also, the whole "couldn't survive without them" thing isn't really another figure of speech.
Takasubo Cardiomyopathy (aka. Broken Heart Syndrome) occurs when a severe emotional trauma triggers a weakening of the heart muscle.
That would probably happen to me

Also, I learnt that from Scrubs xD

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~Chuchkit

I don't have a definition for love, yet.
All I know is that it's endless - in the way that, there's no such thing as "soulmate". There are too many people to love. And maybe there is, but it won't stop you from loving other people too.


Love exists in this fraction of a second, and it can change, and it can go.
And if you were required to die - you would shake with fear, but do it.
And if you were asked to risk something - you would consider the consiquences, but either way say "yes".

You're asking hard questions.
Love is tomato juice. & why not?

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~WindyRein

Love is imagination. Love is when you think that you can't live without someone. Love is pain. Love is what makes people go mad.

Love is what happens when you give life to something/someone you've been waiting for maybe for a lifetime, maybe shorter.

Love is a fastening heart beat. Love is a fluttering in your heart that can't be explained medically.

Love is something that's different to everyone. Love is someone finding you and making you see that you're beautiful too.

Love is murder. Love is insanity. Love is madness. Love is a dream. Love is once in a lifetime. Love is...something that can't be described or explained. Especially explained.

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=ElvenAngelFlyingStar

Love is when you stand wearing only something they gave you and feel covered and protected.
Love is the uncontrollable shortness of breath, the beating of your heart that fills the miles between one and the other.
Love is when you think of a person, and you can't help but smile.
Love is what you feel when you think of the one you can't live without.

Love is everything and nothing, and all you need.

(beautifully written and thought of! i'm gonna pimp this on my page, i think ^^)

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~whos-This-freak

Love? I guess I don't have enough life experience to avoid just grasping its true meaning.

Love is what you feel for your mommy and daddy, because they were always there for you, they always helped you and did the best they could - and if they weren't always there, if they were far away, they were only far away to work, to pay for your books so you wouldn't have your teacher at school looking sideways at you, they were working to pay for your house so you wouldn't be cold, to pay for your favorite clothing in your favorite colors just to hear you, a child, grabbing the hem of their shirt and whisper, "I love you, daddy." And maybe they weren't even working at all. Maybe they are divorced, but they are wondering what to do with you once you see them in the weekend.
For love, they spent countless sleepless nights singing at you to make you sleep when you were a baby, and when they finally succeeded it was morning already and they realize, "I just spent the whole night making my child fall asleep."

Love is what you feel for your best friend forever and your buddy in mischief, because they took the time they didn't have too in letting you in their world, grab your hand and drag you along in a bumby path with stones that they kick away because they know you are clumsy, so you don't trip on them. It is what fuels your cells with courage - or madness, even - when one of the "big" starts talking to them in a non friendly way, and you give a word of non friendly dismissal. Love is what makes your friend come to you, after you have bad results at school and hugs you without words, because they talk to you without speaking, and just that fact makes you smile and move a hand to your face to wipe the tears away. Love is what they do when they see you coughing and in the next break between classes they stroll with you in the city while looking for a pharmacy so they can buy you drops for your coughing. Love is what makes them comment, "You WILL find someone, I know it," when they find someone or when you break up with your boyfriend/girlfriend with whom you were for three years. Love is what makes them say that certain person isn't good for you, because they want to protect you and they want the best for you, so they say, "I told you," when that relationship is over.

Love is what makes you want to touch the lips of other, love is what makes you want to hold someone so close until the pressure nullifies the distance clothing makes between you. Because damn it, you are perfect for each other.


There are so many things in that four lettered word. They are a figure speech brought to our lives. For all sorts, love simply is.

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~Wynt-rs

Love is merely a four letter word. It is an excuse, it is a wish, and it cannot be defined for no one truely understand the full impact of what this little word actually stands for, because there are just too many meanings.
Love is what you interpret it to be, nothing more and nothing less.

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~xbarelyxbreathingx

Love is universal. It can be heartbreaking and awful, and yet it can be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Its a really complex and amazing thing. I really don't think it has one definition

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*The-Paper-Lady-42

Love is when someone else's happiness is vital to your own (I forget where I heard that one).
Where you'll do anything to save them, even if you have to risk something important yourself.
When you're happy to see them smile, no matter who makes them happy.

Something like that. ^^

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~Bupzy

Love is the collective term for emotions felt by one in relation to another.

Love is one stage in a relationships development when you can run out of conversation and happily sit in silence.

Love is the devistation you feel when they won't be coming around for a while.

Love is the feeling of content when your around them, the absence of that deep loneliness.

Love is that moment when you feel you can tell them anything and trust them to accept you with all faults.

Love is the ability to accept their faults.

Love is when you can't picture home without them.

Love is spending time with them when they are in need, even if it means calling in sick.

Love is the sacrifice of your own needs to keep that smile upon their face.

Love is sitting with your best friend eating ice cream and listening to her after a devistating break up, even if you are on a diet.

Love is having a huge fight and admitting that you were wrong (even if you weren't) because you missed them.

Love is that urge you get to punch the people talking about them behind their back.

Love is when you do something stupid and laugh right alongside them, taking no offence.

Love is when you get realistic sympathy pains.

Love is that tinge of jealousy you get when they say they can't hang out because they have an appointment with another.

Love is when you experience a deep throb of anguish just thinking about betraying them in any way.

Love is something we can't control but wish we could. It brings pain and suffering along with ecstasy and utter joy.

Love is the feeling that your whole once again.

Love is NOT common decency but something deeper that effects you much more drasticly than a twinge of guilt.

Love is NOT what you feel for the boy who asked you out yesterday.

Love is all these things and more...but in todays youth, love is a common term used for those they back-stab the next day and the boys they dump when they find someone better.

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~samitheghost

Love is trust beyond all reason.
Love is forgiveness despite the sin.
Love is family
Love is friends
Love is that person you can't stop thinking about
Love is undefined, and should remain so.
Love is love, no matter who you are, or where you've been. and you'll never know if you've felt it until you no longer can. It hurts the most, and heals all wounds. But, it still lacks a clear concrete definition.
This is what love is to me, as i've seen it and felt it. But, each person has their own definition, and our simple languages will never be able to describe something that is more than just a feeling.

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*RenamonMart

For me, love is the reason we live
What's the point of life, if there's no one to share it with?

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*velixer

In my opinion, love is where you care for someone, not just emotionally, but physically and spiritually to a point where you care not about any negative traits the other may have.

Yet I also believe that love is a main source for corruption
What I mean by this is that in all honesty, nobody knows what the true meaning of love is...and most of us are too immature to find out what it truly means.

In short, Love is two faced
We just have to decide which face we choose

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~silverfox64

Love is...
a lack of reason.
a loss of time.
a waste of money.
a chance to feel like dirt.
a chance to fail to someone you 'care'.
a chance for someone to see you like you are. Vulnerable. Fragile. A snowflake in the desert.


...all of this, and reaching the Nirvana for once.
That's what love is.

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~MaverikZer0

When you love someone, you would freely give them your heart.
When you love someone, you would gladly sell your soul to make them happy.

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~thegentlemansoldier

For me, love is not for me. I merely see it as an over-romantisasation (is that a word?) of our own base reproductive instincts. PLus I like to foregoe it for other stuff I want to do with my life. It's for other people and I respect their reasons for wanting love (i'm nice like that) but I choose to foregoe it.

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