Since a very long time ago, people have searched for the meaning of love. But even the great philosophers, with their profound definitions, could not fully touch its true essence. In a survey of 4-8 year olds, kids share their views on love. But what do little kids know about love? Read on and realize their young and innocent minds, kids already have a simple but deep grasp of that four-letter word.

Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way. When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.

When someone loves you, the way she says your name is different. You know that your name is safe in her mouth.

If life is ‘A,’ love is the whole alphabet.

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.

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

Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.

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.

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 daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss but they look happy and sometimes they dance in the kitchen while kissing.

Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents for a minute and look around.

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who hates you.

There are 2 kinds of love. Our love and God’s love. But God makes both kinds of them.

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

Love comes from people’s hearts, but God made hearts.

During my piano recital, I was on a stage and 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.

My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.

Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken.

Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.

When you’re born and see your mommy for the first time. That’s love.

Love goes on even when you stop breathing and you pick up where you left off when you reach heaven.

My enemies taught me how to love.

I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.

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.

You have to fall in love before you get married. Then when you’re married, you just sit around and read books together.

I let my big sister pick on me because my mom says she only picks on me because she loves me. So I pick on my baby sister because I love her.

Love cards, like Valentine’s cards, say stuff on them that we’d like to say ourselves, but we wouldn't be caught dead saying.

Love makes you sweat a lot.

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

You never have to be lonely. There’s always somebody to love, even if it’s just a squirrel or a kitten.

You can break love, but it won’t die. God could have said magic words to make the nails fall off the cross, but He didn't. That’s love.