What is Love?

[M.]

Does love exist? And if so, what is its nature?

[Mark]

Well, we all love ourselves -- or at least, we should. We'd be stupid not to: it's called self-preservation! When you care for someone else as much as, or more than, you care for yourself -- that's love.

[Ariel]

Love does exist. Real love is the choice to put someone else's needs before your own.

[M.]

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Airman’s Odyssey: Night Flight / Wind Sand & Stars / Flight to Arras:

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

[Sergio]

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. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

[M.]

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Aristotle