What is love?

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8
year olds.
What does love mean?
The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined.


1. When my grandma got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her
toenails anymore. So my grandpa does it for her now all the time, even
when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.
Rebecca- age 8

2. When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You
just know that your name is safe in their mouths.
Billy- age 4
(I love it! - how old is this kid?)

3. Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving Cologne
and they go out and smell each other.
Kari- age 5

4. Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French
fries without making them give you any of theirs.
Chrissy- age 6

5. Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
Terri- age 4

6. Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip
before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.
Danny- age 7

7. Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of
kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My mommy and my
daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss.
Emily- age 8

8. Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening
presents and listen.
Bobby- age 7 (WOW - get the Kleenex - he'll go places in this ole world.)

9. If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who
you hate.
Nikka- age 6

10. Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it
everyday.
Noelle- age 7

11. Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still
friends even after they know each other so well.
Tommy- age 6

12. During my piano recital, I was on stage and I was scared.
I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.
He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.
Cindy- age 8

13. My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.
Clare- age 6 (gotta love her)

14. Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken.
Elaine-age 5

15. Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is
handsomer than Robert Redford.
Chris- age 7

16. Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone
all day.
Mary Ann- age 4

17. When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars
come out of you.
Karen- age 7 (what generation is this kid?)

18. Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and doesn't think it's
gross.
Mark- age 6

19. You really shouldn't say I LOVE YOU unless you mean it.
But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.
Jessica- age 8 (priceless)

And the winner was a 4 year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly man who had just lost his wife. When the child saw the man cry, the little boy went over into the man's yard and climbed on top of the man's lap and just sat there. When the boy's mother asked him what he'd said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
"Nothing, I just helped him cry."

 

awww i've gotten that in a email before, and it still makes me smile

 

absoloutly beautiful

 

i love it

 

i love this one


"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You


just know that your name is safe in their mouths. "

 

Kids are so sweet. Kids don't make love complicated, like some of us adults do. Just plain and simple and sweet.

 

Wow....

 

those are amazing, all of them

 

Thats so adorable..I love love..

 

Love means never having to say you're sorry

 

Yes they are

 

"saying you're sorry means you'll never do it again" hehe, i dont know why i just thought of that... dan said that to me once and now i use it constantly on him.

 

this one's good, i love it

didn't i see this on one of those 'I Love the 80's' shows from some stupid movie? this one doesn't make much sense to me...

 

I think its not so much is not having to say sorry..cuz no love is perfect like that, i think this fits better:
Love means you say sorry and you really mean it with all your heart.

 

actually it was from "the love story" (1970)with ryan o neal......

good catch.

 

that made me cry, and now i feel stupid.

 

aww don't feel stupid! *HUGS* it's okay to cry.

 

i think love is caring more about other people's happiness
then about what they think of you or your emotional attatchment
to them.

i don't claim to be very good at this
i care more about my own desire for solitude sometimes
and often more about nature's diversity

whatever love is, it isn't the emotional attatchment for
one person or object, though caring about them is i think legitimate.

i'm sorry but i have a very nonpersonal feeling about what love is.
and i don't mean that in a sense of one particular belief or another either

you know coyote loved creating the land
more then she ever admitted to herself loving anything

=^^=
.../\...

 

I heard love is putting someone else's happiness before your own.

 

I'm a little tear eyed now