What is Love??

Here are some chosen ones:

Love is...

"...like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - Anonymous

"...like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." - Dorothy Parker

"...everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"...an act of endless forgiveness" - Peter Ustinov

"...something that, if you have, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. - Sir James M. Barrie

Here's the masterly stroke:

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain/Robert Frost

And here's some food for thought:

"Love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." - Woody Allen