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For many, love is a constant search for happiness that never ends. The desire for love is longed for and pursued by every human. Many constantly seek it in self satisfaction, but are never fully satisfied with the love which they attain. The biggest reason for this is the distortion of the love which is sought for. True love is pure and selfless, the perfection of a person. It is truly something which must be cultivated in order to recognize and attain it. Love is a gift so sacred that it is worth living and dying for. “Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not

Love is the major reason why people want to forgive and thus move on to normalize their relationships.

    Loving one that loves one back is an easy task to accomplish, but loving them without them loving one back is a degrading, embarrassing task and only the bold, courageous, and madly in love people would do such things. The following passage was extracted

“No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind" (Love Sessions, 2009). “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, 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 preserves”

in love is to see the other individual as a special complement to one's existence." Socrates, on

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” Euripides

“ I made many mistakes in my life. I just want to prevent you from doing the same” it

love is given for the return of love itself. Furthermore, loyalty is again shown by

“When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.”.

The man sat down at the table and continued to drink his beer. “I know there’s nothing wrong with you,” he said, “I never said there was.” The man quickly changed the topic. “When we’re done in Madrid we could take a train to Castellón de la Plana and stay near the beach if you’d like.” He said. The girl stared at the hills and said nothing.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

”There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

love doesn’t exist. This quote also helps to show how the speaker’s grief over his beloved’s

He never acknowledged her, even after she was quite famous. So it wouldn't really matter how famous she became and how successful, how beautiful she was because she didn't have that early love and protection. And I think because I had that, I sort of carried that with me even today. (qtd. in Neary)

Nor ought but love from thee recompense Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persevere, That when we live no more, we may live ever. Anne Bradstreet's poem "