by Bethel Simeon

Created on: February 22, 2007   Last Updated: April 23, 2007

Love means sacrifice, giving up your valuable life, time, money, etc, to make someone happy. The sacrificial attribute of love is demonstrated when a young man runs to rescure the woman he loves from being raped at gun-point and ends up being shot.
Love is one of the shortest words in the vocabulary of the English language, yet it's so potent, so vast, so much so that giving sufficient defination and description to it will require a lot of effort.

Love is a strong emotional attachment to someone. It is the strongest feeling and conviction that your soul is interwined with that of the other person. Love is one soul living in two body. It is that magnet that draws you closer to someone and glues you to them.
Love litens to you with a patient endurance and speaks to you with a kind voice. It looks at you with compassionate eyes and touches you with a caring hand.
Love is that rare virture that shows kindness and care to the one who is not deserving of it.
Love is the virture that finds a good reason to forgive every wrong-doing. Love is that rare trait that appreciates the immotal trutth that all human beings are not infallible and are therefore liable to err. It overlooks the frailties of the other person and helps them to surmount them.
Love is the fountain of strength. It is the force that will not stop you from being happy for your neighbour when they are happy. Conversely, love will make you sad when they sad. It gives you the sense to be with people in bad times and in good times.
Love is the bond that cannot be broken. Love is the deepest insight you have into people which makes you accept them the way they are without making effort to change them into a different people.
Love is the surest shield that guarrantees security. It assures you that people will always be with you come rain or sunshine. It fills you with emptiness when they are away. It agitates your heart to long to be with them at all times. Love puts your mind at peace.
Love is being in the vehicle together as you journey into the future. It is the joy of working together. Love is the infuence that helps us motivate and inspire each other as we strive to achieve our loftiest dreams.
Love means giving. A giver of love strips himself of comfort to ensure that the heart desire of the other person is met. Love gives clothing to the one who is naked; food to the one who is hungry; shelter to the homeless, comfort to the one who is sorrowful; it lifts the soul of the one who is depressed. Love shares, it gives and takes as well. It is the sunshine that smiles on the sad face of a frustrated soul.
Love is not ashamed of the condition of the other person. It has no problem embracing the man in tattared clothes. Love is not ashamed of removing worms from the wounds of a sick man. It has no problem wiping out tears from an ugly face.
Love is the source of life; it is the strongest power on earth. You find peace in loving and you should love at all times.

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