Love doesn’t mean a state of perfect caring. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now — and to go on caring through joyful times and through times that may bring us pain.

I want to talk about love. Loving someone...I mean really loving someone...means you are willing to admit that the person you love is not what you first fell in love with, not the image you first had; and you must be able to like them still for being as close to that image as they are, and avoid disliking them for being so far away.

Love, when you are loving someone, love him for the sake of God or his messenger

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Love for a person is acceptance of him or her the way he is and the way he is not.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value..Each one has a gift to bring to others. Each one has his or her mission in the larger family of humanity. Each one reveals the secret face of God.

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love is how you treat someone.

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

To love is to will the good of another.

Love means noticing that everyone is worthy of love and treating them with the respect and dignity their humanity automatically makes them deserve.