Love - this mysterious feeling that comes in a variety of shapes from a wave of intense emotion to a small warm spot in our hearts. We all seek it, whether it is openly and willingly or perhaps it is a secret that we keep to ourselves - bottom line -we all want to be loved.

It is hard to nail down a clear definition of this shape-shifting emotion. But no matter how you package it, paint it, feel it or remember it...ahhh, it's a'more.

We thought that we'd get you in the mood by letting some of the experts define love for us. Here are just a few... 

"Love is 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

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous

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

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

"To 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

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." - Josiah G. Holland

 "Love me without fear / Trust me without questioning / Need me without demanding / Want me without restrictions / Accept me without change / Desire me without inhibitions." - Dick Sutphen

"Thou art to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly while embracing each other." - Lucian de Croszonza

"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." - Gretchen Kemp

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May you have love on the menu every day of the week for the rest of your life... 

love, the staff at SeniorLifeOnline