Here are a few more ponderings about love. These quotes are not intended to represent a definitive definition of what love is or isn't but rather to encourage us all to reflect on how we all give and receive love and please feel free to submit your own thoughts on the subject.



Love is being in a relationship based on equality and partnership. It’s not maintaining a subservient hierarchy.

Love is not controlling others.

Love is not constantly trying to rescue or fix others.

Love is not settling for too little in a relationship in an effort to protect one’s emotional security.

Love is not being a doormat to others.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

Love is being stupid together

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.