Bookee's Thots

What is love? Check out the quotes below…. "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 anaesthesia." - 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 "Sometim

I recently had 'What is life without Love?' as my status on Facebook and guess the responses I got. Someone wrote it's like tea without sugar, another wrote it's like a sounding cymbal, again another asked if I know anything about love, etc...but the one that struck is that from someone who wrote it's freedom from jealousy, hatred, lies, disappointment and so on. I was like...this is serious! But really, what is life without love? Can we survive a day without love? Can we live, move, talk, see, laugh, cry, hate, think, write, love, forgive, give, abuse, friend, drink, eat, sit, stand. marry...without love. Let's think deeply! When someone you love offends you, you get very bitter and disappointed. You accept to eat somebody's food just for the love you have for them. You can't afford to loose your mum...and you (think) you live for your children. It takes love to stand up for someone when he/she is cheated You love your country so much you can't bear