Genius brigade defines - LOVE

[BobRyan]

Here's what the real experts have to say about love. A group of professionals posed the question "What does love mean?" to a group of 4 to 8 year olds ...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. -- Bobby, age 7

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

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

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

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

My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night. -- Clare, age 6

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

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

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

When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you. -- Karen, age 7

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

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, 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."

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[Liz]

How cute is that? My favorites were Kari, Bobby and Tommy, and then of course, the last one.

[karl]

Here are some "love" quotes from slightly older children:

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - Sophocles

"Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed." - John Tarrant

"We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud

"Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day." - Nicholas Sparks

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - unknown

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm

"In the final analysis, love is the only reflection of man's worth." - Bill Wundram, Iowa Quad Cities Times

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

[phkrause]

Bob these are just darlin' not sure how to say it any other way. Printing those out for others to read. Thanks for the post.

pk