Love

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
           - Shakespeare

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
           - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is one of those things in this life that cannot be understood unless it is experienced. If it is present it can came make someone want to live forever, and if absent snatch the life right out of them.
Love is always stereotyped as feelings one might have for someone of the opposite gender, but it is so much more than that. Love is the ONLY reason that we still exist, and to love is our soul purpose. Yet how many of us really know how to love? I don't just mean the "i love my cat" or "I love pizza" kind, but the kind of love that always puts others first, or would be willing to lay down its life for another. I think if there were more people out there who spent their lives learning how to love instead of becoming the perfect person or putting on the best show, we would have a completely different world... and you and I could be the ones to start making that difference...