Love??? - Page 6

***RÃan*** · 10-01-2004, 02:46 PM

Here's a few of my favorites from a list - kids answering the question "what love really is" -

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."

"When you love somebody, your eye lashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."

Some of those are pretty profound!

brownjenkins · 10-01-2004, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."

uh oh, my wife always takes the good pieces before i can get to 'em

those are sweet quotes though

love to me is unconditional appreciation for someone else... even if they take all the good pieces

***RÃan*** · 10-01-2004, 03:39 PM

But I'm sure she knows that you wanted her to have them

I agree with the appreciation aspect, but I would add that (at least IMO) love also involves action - actively doing something for the loved one when necessary.

Here's the last one on the page - it's a little different theme - it's about compassion/caring for others:

... a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

Giroth · 10-01-2004, 03:40 PM

True love is not of the flesh but of the heart.

Love, is It all that you want.
Is It everything you hope for.
Love, is It more than the word that you use when you look at her.
Love, It will push you around,
It will make you a poor man,
change your picture of heaven, heaven.
Love, It will make you a man,
It will make you a child again.
Love, does It keep you awake.
Does It change everything you see.
Love, is It worth what you give.
Is It everything you need.

Love. Love, is It all that you want. Is It everything you've worked for. Love, is It wearing you down...love.

Just thought i'd share that song... Peace and hair grease,

~Giroth

***RÃan*** · 10-01-2004, 03:47 PM

and one more, then I'm off the Moot for a bit...

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate."

inked · 10-07-2004, 11:40 PM

Love is a funny thing. It's something like a lizard!
It wraps its tail around your heart and crawls into your gizzard.

(circa 1963)

Snowdog · 09-08-2005, 01:38 PM

You always hear of terms like:

My First Love
The Love of my Life
My Soulmate
My Best Friend
My Lover

To you, what is the difference?
To you, what distinguishes one from another?
Can they all really exist in one person?

Lotesse · 09-08-2005, 01:40 PM

All very, very good questions! I'm gonna answer this post more fully later on, right now I have to calm down a little from all this excitement, 'cause I just got off the phone with my momma whom I LOVELOVELOVE so much - that's on topic, yes? Loving one's momma...

brownjenkins · 09-08-2005, 02:08 PM

My First Love

a rather short-lived, but fun affair in my life... a fond memory in retrospect

The Love of my Life

i've had two i'd consider in that category (one i'm married to

) ... maybe The Loves of my Life

My Soulmate

hmmm... tough one... in terms of complimentary personalities the first "love of my life" was closer... maybe too close

the second has grown into something that works real well

My Best Friend

i have five people i'd consider "best friends" ... the people i trust and give and take with the most ... my father, my wife, one of my kids, and two others (unrelated)

My Lover

my wife... faithfulness is one of my strongpoints (at least in a physical sense... the mind wanders sometimes

)

so 3 or 4 out of 5 exist in one person (though not exclusively) ... i'm also not sure if her being my "first love" in a romantic sense would have been a good thing ... i think a lot of my appreciation for her is due to my past experience, and if i had not had that past experience i might not feel the way about her that i do

Lief Erikson · 09-08-2005, 09:17 PM

* My First Love: Myself.

* The Love of my Life: Myself.

* My Soulmate: I am self-fulfilled.

* My Best Friend: Myself.

* My Lover: Hmm. I must say, for some reason none has been available . . .

Lotesse · 09-09-2005, 02:02 AM

(edit to eliminate)

Nerdanel · 09-09-2005, 09:57 AM

"There is no love, only recombination."

Lotesse · 09-10-2005, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

* My First Love: Myself.

* The Love of my Life: Myself.

* My Soulmate: I am self-fulfilled.

* My Best Friend: Myself.

* My Lover: Hmm. I must say, for some reason none has been available . . .

gee, I wonder why. Maybe 'cause you have other love interests, say, oh, I don't know, could it be... yourself???

Lief Erikson · 09-10-2005, 11:49 PM

Fair point. And once I fall in love, I am certain to be loyal to the end.

Lotesse · 09-10-2005, 11:54 PM

What about Rosy Palmer, and her sisters? You must stay loyal to them!

Lief Erikson · 09-11-2005, 12:04 AM

I don't believe they sufficiently acknowledge my worth to be worthy of me.

Lotesse · 09-26-2005, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

Here's a few of my favorites from a list - kids answering the question "what love really is" -

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."

"When you love somebody, your eye lashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."

Some of those are pretty profound!

Indeed. I like the 'smelling each other' one.

***RÃan*** · 09-26-2005, 01:44 AM

cute, aren't they?

And very true!

Spock · 09-26-2005, 02:07 AM

There us no set definition of Love, IMO and in many of those who study intra personal relations. It affects each person differently and combining two or more individuals in this random chaos module with love, does not guarantee the same results each time.

Those that have found it, examine it to be sure it is not harmful and then closer to see if it is truly intrapersonal in actions and deeds. If it is, that is the least hurtful and most beneficial to the parties involved. IMO

Lotesse · 09-26-2005, 02:09 AM

AARRGGH!! The deconstruction of love.

10-01-2004, 02:46 PM	#101
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Here's a few of my favorites from a list - kids answering the question "what love really is" - "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth." "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." "Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken." "When you love somebody, your eye lashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." Some of those are pretty profound! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

10-01-2004, 03:39 PM	#103
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	But I'm sure she knows that you wanted her to have them I agree with the appreciation aspect, but I would add that (at least IMO) love also involves action - actively doing something for the loved one when necessary. Here's the last one on the page - it's a little different theme - it's about compassion/caring for others: ... a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry." __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

10-01-2004, 03:40 PM	#104
Giroth The Dragonqueen Join Date: May 2002 Location: sunny Cali! Posts: 423	True love is not of the flesh but of the heart. Love, is It all that you want. Is It everything you hope for. Love, is It more than the word that you use when you look at her. Love, It will push you around, It will make you a poor man, change your picture of heaven, heaven. Love, It will make you a man, It will make you a child again. Love, does It keep you awake. Does It change everything you see. Love, is It worth what you give. Is It everything you need. Love. Love, is It all that you want. Is It everything you've worked for. Love, is It wearing you down...love. Just thought i'd share that song... Peace and hair grease, ~Giroth __________________ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost 'So choose today whom you will serve..as for me and my family we wil serve the Lord.' " Now if you were a hot dog,and you were starving,would ya eat yourself? I know I would! First I'd smother myself in brown mustard and relish..I'd be so delicious!" It's pronounced 'Hether', not 'Heether', biznotch!

10-01-2004, 03:47 PM	#105
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	and one more, then I'm off the Moot for a bit... "If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate." __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

10-07-2004, 11:40 PM	#106
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Love is a funny thing. It's something like a lizard! It wraps its tail around your heart and crawls into your gizzard. (circa 1963) __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

09-08-2005, 01:38 PM	#107
Snowdog DÃºnedain Ranger of the North Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: The Ruins of Arnor Posts: 892	You always hear of terms like: My First Love The Love of my Life My Soulmate My Best Friend My Lover To you, what is the difference? To you, what distinguishes one from another? Can they all really exist in one person? __________________ "I am an outlaw, I was born an outlaw's son. The highway is my legacy, on the highway I will run."

09-08-2005, 01:40 PM	#108
Lotesse of the House of FÃ«anor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	All very, very good questions! I'm gonna answer this post more fully later on, right now I have to calm down a little from all this excitement, 'cause I just got off the phone with my momma whom I LOVELOVELOVE so much - that's on topic, yes? Loving one's momma... __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

09-08-2005, 02:08 PM	#109
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	My First Love a rather short-lived, but fun affair in my life... a fond memory in retrospect The Love of my Life i've had two i'd consider in that category (one i'm married to ) ... maybe The Loves of my Life My Soulmate hmmm... tough one... in terms of complimentary personalities the first "love of my life" was closer... maybe too close the second has grown into something that works real well My Best Friend i have five people i'd consider "best friends" ... the people i trust and give and take with the most ... my father, my wife, one of my kids, and two others (unrelated) My Lover my wife... faithfulness is one of my strongpoints (at least in a physical sense... the mind wanders sometimes ) so 3 or 4 out of 5 exist in one person (though not exclusively) ... i'm also not sure if her being my "first love" in a romantic sense would have been a good thing ... i think a lot of my appreciation for her is due to my past experience, and if i had not had that past experience i might not feel the way about her that i do __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

09-08-2005, 09:17 PM	#110
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	* My First Love: Myself. * The Love of my Life: Myself. * My Soulmate: I am self-fulfilled. * My Best Friend: Myself. * My Lover: Hmm. I must say, for some reason none has been available . . . __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

09-09-2005, 02:02 AM	#111
Lotesse of the House of FÃ«anor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	(edit to eliminate) __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last edited by Lotesse : 09-10-2005 at 10:12 PM.

09-09-2005, 09:57 AM	#112
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	"There is no love, only recombination." __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

09-10-2005, 11:49 PM	#114
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Fair point. And once I fall in love, I am certain to be loyal to the end. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

09-10-2005, 11:54 PM	#115
Lotesse of the House of FÃ«anor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	What about Rosy Palmer, and her sisters? You must stay loyal to them! __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

09-11-2005, 12:04 AM	#116
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	I don't believe they sufficiently acknowledge my worth to be worthy of me. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

09-26-2005, 01:44 AM	#118
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	cute, aren't they? And very true! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

09-26-2005, 02:07 AM	#119
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	There us no set definition of Love, IMO and in many of those who study intra personal relations. It affects each person differently and combining two or more individuals in this random chaos module with love, does not guarantee the same results each time. Those that have found it, examine it to be sure it is not harmful and then closer to see if it is truly intrapersonal in actions and deeds. If it is, that is the least hurtful and most beneficial to the parties involved. IMO __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

09-26-2005, 02:09 AM	#120
Lotesse of the House of FÃ«anor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	AARRGGH!! The deconstruction of love. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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