The Need for Love

Manila : Philippines | Aug 18, 2012 at 2:43 AM PDT

By Liwayway Memije-Cruz

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The Need for Love

by Prof. Liwayway Memije-Cruz

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference -- in our own lives and those of others.- Sharon Salzberg

I know that you would agree with me that everyone of us needs love. So many of us are indeed hungry for love or starving to be listened to, or respected or even cared for. Our human spirit is indeed sometimes suffering from the true essence of poverty and the absence of love and concern from the people around us make our spirit wilt and die.

Love can be in different forms, shapes and intensity, it can be a love to the one you chose to spend your life with, love to your parents and siblings, love to a friend, neighbor or to a person just around the corner. Loving means generosity, willingness to give and share whatever we have to people around us. It could be material or it can be in the form of acceptance, understanding, respect and concern.

Love brings about miracles. In fact it can generate multitude of miracles in people’s lives. Sometimes love unexpectedly heals the heart and sometimes love involves physical healings. Through love, compassion, forgiveness and peace everyone can cultivate love.

Loving means desires to fulfill. Desires for you to feel… to suddenly seek joy and happiness but sometimes pains come within like a thief in the night. Hurting you so much and leave you in pain. Loving means willingness and joyfully to bleed, for the sake of the love you have for the one you love so deeply. But then regardless of the pain, everyone needs love in his lifetime.

Liwayway Memije-Cruz is based in Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines, and is a Reporter for Allvoices.

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JohnPaulMartinez1014 | 9 months ago

Love is one of the most confusing and wonderful parts of life. There is perhaps no subject about which so many stories, songs and poems have been written. Speculation about it is always an area of fascination, particularly for women.

John Paul Martinez
BSA 2-9D

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paulabianca | 8 months ago

I do agree that we all need love. Not to complete the emptiness of our needs but to achieve the fulfillment of life. When I say fulfillment is to achieve the desired happiness from the heart and soul of the individual. Love is given to us by God because He himself does the same with love we achieve forgiveness and happiness after the pains and challenges we encounter.

Paula Bianca Niño
BCECD 3-3

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kusanagi09 | 6 months ago

Love is in my opinion, the most essential thing anyone should have because living a life full of hate is not healthy at all to you especially in your mental status since this would lead you to depression if not treated. Seeking love is not as hard as is really was as long as someone is out there caring for you or at least, thinking of you.

Nicko Bernard M. Tito
ABE 4-1

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Jacelle Castillo | 6 months ago

Everyone needs to be loved. It is really nice to be loved back. Love can change everything. Love never fails. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love is the only cure of the broken heart. It covers bitterness, hatred, anger, pain, and heartaches. Love sacrifices. It is powerful indeed. --BSBA-HRDM II-1S

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RoseAnnCustodioTalisayon | 6 months ago

- All of us need to be loved, but before that, we need to love ourselves first, so that we are complete as a person when we love someone.Loving someone is a good thing that every person can do, but to be loved by someone is one of greatest thing that a person could feel and have. Being loved by someone is a privilege, because through this, you’ll see your value as a person, in spite of being imperfect, someone still stays in your life, and that’s a good thing! While loving someone makes as a better person. This eliminates bad habits that we have, we start valuing and appreciating everything in this world, we can always see good things in every bad thing. But, if you started to love someone, you need to prepare yourself to everything or in any possibilities, because not all the time, we can receive the same love from the one we choose to give our love. -BSBA-HRDM 2-1S

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vanessamaygacilo | 6 months ago

Faith makes all things possible. Hope makes all things work. Love makes all things beautiful. At the first place, before we were born, LOVE EXISTED already-love from our parents and especially the love of God. Everybody needs love to continue to live in the fullest even pains, struggles, and misfortunes come in the midst of our enjoyment in life.
We should always remember that we are loved. Maybe not by the world, but by the One who made it. hrdM 2-1S

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vicenciojhonas | 6 months ago

Everyone deserves to love and to be loved. Love is a very powerful thing, sometimes you can be self fish, martyr, or even fool and this things happen because of the strong endurance of our feelings. And I think, the most important thing need in love is to love God with all our heart and with this we may feel contentment for all the things.
BSBA-HRDM 2-1s

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alyssabeatriz | 6 months ago

Love do exist but it is rare. It has been screwed up in our generation. It's only a word that people throw around to lure others into a false sense of security. People use the word love so lightly. After the first date, some people already say "I love you".
When do you know if you truly love someone? Couples have told me that they found love and that I'll soon find it too, but after months pass, I see them split up.I personally don't believe in love and I'm perfectly content without that "deeper connection" crap. True love disappeared along with the "Good" of society.

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SharwinAngelPilipia | 6 months ago

All of us need love. We need affection from other, specially to the one the we love. Love is mysterious, it arrives at the time we didn't expect it. For me love is gift of God. We have the chance to love and to be loved by someone. Loving someone gave us happy thoughts and a feeling of contentment. Love is wonderful, so if you find that special someone in your life you must take good care of him/her. Make him/her feel that she/he is worth loving. True love arrives at the right time. we dont need to rush it. It will come to the time when you are ready to conquer anything. BSBA-HRDM 2-1S

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EvaMarionRico | 6 months ago

Agree! Agree! All of us need love. Like no one is an island. You can't live without love; that's like life is meaningless, no direction at all! We are created out of love so we have the ability to love back. The greatest love of all is God's love, i'll say it in other way, "God is Love."

Eva Marion Rico
ABE 2-4

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JhonEltagon | 6 months ago

On my own opinion, Love can occur between two or more individuals. It bonds them and connects them in a unified link of trust, intimacy and interdependence. It enhances the relationship and comforts the soul. Love should be experienced and not just felt. It is one of the most abundant feeling that every people should have because it fills up the cycle of life.

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wenalouise | 6 months ago

Everyone needs love. Even the simpliest love will make our lives bloom. The feeling that your inlove or someone is inlove with you, makes your life unconcious. Love, a very simple word but yet have many different meanings with wide variety of explanations. Love is awesome because sometimes its unexpected. Like in the song of the Beatles " ALL WE NEED IS LOVE! "

ROWENA LOUISE V.EUSTAQUIO
BSBA-MM 2-2N

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jane_rose_perez | 6 months ago

Love could be a destruction or inspiration. It could help us turn into a good person but sometimes it can turn us into a bad person. Sometimes the absence of love makes a person feel unloved and rejected by the people he love. that is why people or teenagers most of this days are rebellious, because they feel that they are unloved. This could lead a person to look on himself less important, he gives no value on his life anymore and these will lead into suicidal. Without love the life seems to be boring worthless. But love can still save those person who are seems to be in darkness. Love can't be only found from the opposite sex. We can have love From our family, friends, or pets; but most important is we can find love from the source of love, and that is God.

PEREZ.JANE ROSE T.
ABE 2-4

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KrizzaVhelNSamar | 6 months ago

Love sometimes give us hope in our life. Love can be the solution in our problem but sometimes Love can be the destroyer. Loving can be painful as if we had a cancer. but in this present time every person need to be love, i think that's what the essence of being here on earth. so take love as a positive thing in your, don't let this Love ruin your life. Don't forget to Love yourself first.

KRIZZA VHEL N. SAMAR
ABE II-4

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azuzephre123 | 5 months ago

Everyone search for love but thy love cannot be search so many people tend to be hurt for thy love come at the right time and gives a once meaningless love into a meaningful one the no one can interpret but you

JOHN CARLO AGUILAR
BSBA MM 2-2s

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katiecupcake | 5 months ago

The need to love and care for others is built into us biologically. This need is what allows parents to forgo sleep, food, and sanity while raising their children. This need is what allows people to put themselves at risk to save others from natural disasters and human threats. This need is what makes human society work on both a small and large scale.

Loving others allows us to put the needs and desires of others before our own. We will work harder and longer, sometimes at jobs we loathe, to provide for those we love. We will tolerate otherwise intolerable conditions to provide care for our loved ones whether they are young or old.

Love means to cherish, hold dear, and treasure. We do not hurt, harm, or cause pain to those we love; rather, we seek to relieve their suffering. It is not about wanting people; it's about wanting people to be happy. It's not about wanting to possess or control others; it's about wanting to set them free.

KATRINA LORRAINE G. MENDROS
ABE 2-1

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DickjesusCabunot | 5 months ago

All of us need Love. This is a basic feelings that everyone feel for God, family, self and for other people. This Love can be a foundation for better connection between all of us . This will lessen crimes because as we love everyone, we cannot harm them. So love everybody.

Dick Jesus Cabunot
BSBA MM 2-2S

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CharleneClaraDominguez | 5 months ago

All of us wanted to be loved and to feel inlove. We all want to experience that nine cloud feeling that you feel like you’re floating. But, we don’t need to look and rush for love. It will come on the right time. God has plans for each and everyone of us. All we need to is to wait, because love will come at its best on the right time.

Charlene Clara Dominguez
BSBA MM 2-2S

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jelainenoble | 5 months ago

Many quotes about love that I've read are saying that LOVE is like a water to drink and Air to breath. Well that's obviously showing how much we need love in our life. We made out of love and continuously Living because of love. Love is very powerful weapon yet not deadly. It inspires and spell magic to anyone. It's nice to love to be love.

Jelaine L.Noble
Hrdm 2-6D

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DarleneRazon | 5 months ago

Love is in the air. For me showing your love is the greatest and best gift you’ll ever have. Sometimes when you say your inlove, its not always you have partner. but it is also showing that your happy and contented. I do believe that love is a miracle. Our faith and love on God gives us strength to pass every challenges. And it feels great to love someone and be loved by someone. Its a priceless thing you’ll ever have.

Darlene Razon
BSBA HRDM 2-6D

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IvyCardona | 5 months ago

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. All of the people want to experience to be loved for it will complete the essence of being a human. Often times we're starving to experience love, because we often feel that we are alone in this world but we never realize that our Father in heaven never fails to love us. we thought that our imperfections will lead us to rejection but we never realize that through our imperfections we can really see the true people who dare to be with us. To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything.

Ivy Cardona
HRDM 2-6d

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kristenmitra | 5 months ago

Love brings us happiness. Everyone of us needs love. In loving, we will be able to know our self deeper. We will see what we can do for love. What sacrifices we can make for the sake of the one we love. What we will be when we love. Loving is intimate. It leads us to happiness, sometimes pain. It is the best feeling in the world, yet it could also gives us sorrow, heartaches and regrets. But if we know the true essence of love, we will be able to understand it and we will be truly happy with the one who deserves us.

Kristen Mitra
HRDM 2-6D

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JonalynLimCelindro | 5 months ago

Everyone needs love. It brings happiness, forgiveness, compassion, and even peace to people. No one lives without love, for even we are created out of love. We may not always feel loved by the world, but we are truly loved by the one who created and owns the world.

Jonalyn Celindro
HRDm 2-6D

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karlamaedeguzman | 5 months ago

The greatest feeling in this world is to give and receive the word “I love you” and “I love you too” not only in words but also in action. He/she/they may not said it but you can always feel it that you feel so special to others mostly to the people you loved. Do not hate love, there’s nothing wrong about it but it is the way you handle things. If you will give love to God, the, surely you will enjoy love. DE GUZMAN, KARLA MAE P. (BSBA MM 2-2S)

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johnaimer | 5 months ago

Everyone need love. Most of us our searching some us are finding and some of us is at pain because of Love . We may not always feel love but there is someone who Loves us more than else GOD.

John Aimer E. Magcalas
HRDM 2-6D

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eloisa_lagatoc | 5 months ago

Love is everything in our life, is a feeling that really can’t be described. Everybody wants to have love, everybody needs love. It’s a strong emotion, deep connection or has a great amount of affection felt towards something or someone; consists of compassionate feelings, overwhelming desire and care. It can make us happy or it is going to be painful because they are changes- old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure and safe but the new is absolutely unknown. But then, love for me means a good feeling.

Eloisa M. Lagatoc
HRDM 2-6D

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mikelle01 | 5 months ago

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa
All living person in this Earth have the need for love. We seek the person that we think is worthy for our love and we also seek to be loved.
Love is a very essential element in life. We can't enjoy life if we are full of hatred. We should learn to love to appreciate life.

Mabelle Lagarto
HRDM 2-6D

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sarahklls | 5 months ago

I agree that we need love. Love not only from the opposite sex, but love came from our friends, families and of course to God. The love came from God is the one that we really to appreciate because He love us unconditionally. Even if we are not deserve His love, He still the one who love us all the times. So we need to be thankful for all the love we received. Love from our friend, family and came from God !

Sarah Palenquez
BSBA-MM 2-2S

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maredelsalili | 5 months ago

we all need love. Every one of us needs to love and be loved. Real, true love is unconditional. How can some define something as abstract and unexplainable as love? For me, to love someone unconditionally means that you love the person exactly as they are, exactly as they were before, and exactly as they will be in the future – because people change all the time, so if you love the person, you will love them even if they become something you disagree with.

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nelissamanapat | 5 months ago

Everyone needs love. Love is one of the happiest things in life. Love can be our inspirations in reaching our goals towards success. I agree that we need love to fulfill our happiness and joy. It gives the deepest feeling in our hearts regardless of the pain and suffer at the same time. Love takes sacrifices and understanding more.

Nelissa Manapat
BSBA HRDM 2-6D

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