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Love is not an emotion or a feeling, it is an act of will. It does create emotions and feelings though.

The best one on this list.

What feeling can top love. There is no emotion out there that makes and at the same time makes no sense simulteniously. You feel happy, elated, hopeful, greatful, etc... Something that we all want!

love is caring,gentle, and unconditional. its a feeling that consumes your whole being.thats how i feel for my children. it is always there even when i am mad at them.

Love, this is what makes the world go around, baby!

Love is the greatest emotion because it not only the sweetest emotion, it also has amazing effects. It can heal a person, even physically prolonging their life. Infact, love is the greatest gift you can recieve. The nature of love is, it keeps no records of something wrong, it believes the best about a person, it is quick to listen and forgive yet slow to judge, it is selfless, it is kind, patient, peace loving, it is not arrogent, slow to anger and has been the power source for the most heroric acts. Eg Jesus getting Himself killed so that if we simply believe in Him, we will enter His Kingdom, or a parent running into a burning house to save their children. Love is the making of a hero. Other emotions like compassion, mercy, forgiveness are branches of love. Without love, if there was a world disaster, no one would give a dam. Without love, we would also eliminate compassion, grace, hatred for evilness and wrongs in our society, marriage. We were created to be love and to be loved. I also believe that love has been mistaken for lust. It is not love that hurts, it is the feeling of rejection or not getting what you want. I say this because so often, people say that love hurts. I also believe that love can turn to jealousey. That is why people would murder their loved ones if they did something horrible to them. Jealousey is not just being angry at someone for having something that you don't have, it is also defined as a fear and resentment of loosing one's affection. If there was true love in the first place, that type of jealousey wouldn't exist. Don't mistake love for one's selfish desire to control. Sometimes the reason why husbands may sometimes beat their wives or murder, it is not always out of love, but out of a strong desire to control and posess someone, which it's root source is insecurity. The most important thing about love is it is unconditional. If some people claim that love comes at a cost, it is because of the people they were loving were not only selfish and wern't willing to give them a try, but their love is based on looks or your material posessions which is not love at all, but the love of lust. I know, because I sometimes feel like that - Love comes at a cost. It does with humans who are unwilling to obey God, and will be punished, but it doesn't with God. All as you have to do is accept His love. Just as humans have defamed love, they have also defamed God.

I'd have to say that I really hate love. It's very complicated and unreliable. I take it very seriously. I don't believe in love at first sight. The only people I love is God, Jesus, and most of my family. I don't like the idea of loving another person and getting married, kids, etc. because it never lasts. Love is great for people who can find it, but it comes with a price. That's why I don't want to have anything to do with it.

I've come to question the romantic part, but who knows?

Well love certainly is a very special emotion that can be very difficult to maintain and comes in all different forms. For example, my relationship between me and my wife is extrodinarily dry but we know we love each other. It's important for people to remember that love can come in all packages but when you discover it- it's unreplacable.

Loveis amazing, although I'm not old enough to experience love between boyfriend/girlfriend/. Love is also complicated. I'm 15, and I'm not claiming to be an expert, but being in love, or in like in my case, usually ends up in pain, but it's really nice while it lasts.

I love my family, my job, my pets, my sports teams and poor people. Otherwise, I'm not that loveable.

Love, I feel, is the bond that brings humans together in unity. This is the gift that God gave us that separates us from the animal kingdom, and this is the gift that brings us together. I'm still learning about Christianity, but I feel God has a purpose for people-- as condemned as we are. What drives this purpose has to be love. Take for example a teenager who wrecked his car with another and is badly hurt, bleeding in fact from his head. A couple pull over, sense something is wrong, and immediately dial for help. The quickness of the ambulance drivers and the efficency of the ER doctors that come after this further enhance my point. It is not just the job that these people are assigned to do. They do this to help the people, they do this to make sure they are relieved of pain, they do this out of their love for the afflicted people. Another example: a girl has been dumped by her boyfriend. Her father comes in and sets her down to talk with reassuring comments and sets straight an attainable goal. This is the father's love for his child, knowing full well that he doesn't want to see her get hurt or become depressed. Without faith in God, I think none of us would ever feel this way, and none of us would pour our compassion into one another. there would be no compassion!!! God knew this when He created us, and He created us in His own image. This is how humans bond, through a simple, yet powerfully emotional act of love.

How could LOVE be number 3?! Maybe you never experienced the real thing.I hope,for your sake,you do!

Ah love sweet love. It's what Jesus wanted us all to embrace. I'm no religious zealot but what beats love. It's a highly complex emotion which in it's pure form is what heaven must be like. If you cannot love others than you surely do not love yourself.

The greatest emotion we are given. Love is often the basis for other positive emotions.

Solenoid, one of the wisest people I know told me exactly what you just said. Our pastor, when we went for our pre-marriage counseling gave us three Cs for a successful marriage. Communication, Cooperation, and Commitment. He said You have to not only, choose to get married on your wedding day, but every day after that as well. If you cant do that, your marriage will inevitably fail. I think he was pretty much on the mark. A couple of years later, a farmer told me in simpler terms his three rules. 1. Be nice. Always say youre sorry. 2. Admit when youre wrong. 3. Never give up. I didnt think about it at the time, but he was telling me the same thing as our pastor, just using different words. As for my wife and I, we dont always experience the euphoria that once was, but we are completely committed to each other. I have experienced only six months of marriage so far, but if there is anything that I can count on, its our relationship.

i feel this for my wife, my cats, and a good book. nothing else.

This word embarasses a lot of people. Even many spouses don't like to say I love you to the one they're married to. Probably the main reason is because Love is considered primarily an emotion (which is how it is listed here). And emotions are very personal, especially when you're growing up and going through all kinds of changes. Another problem is that emotions tend to ebb and flow. This is often why marriages break up. Two people discover that they don't feel the same today as they did last week, so they must not be in love anymore. But REAL love is not primarily an emotion. It's a commitment one person makes to another. Even God didn't emotionally like the world that He saw. It says in John 3:16 that He LOVED the world - He HATED what He saw, but He committed Himself to saving and healing the world. My wife and I don't always feel romantic toward each other, but we're totally committed to each other. I'll take that over the roller coaster of emotions any day.

Without love in your life, whether it be love for God, family or a least a pet; then I believe there has to be a void. This void/ emptiness is very sad and the hope of fulfillment lies within the individual.

I think it's the only way to be serene and excited at the same time. Difficult, if not impossible, to describe.