Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.