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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.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.

Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

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 the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

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.