Dictionary.com has 14 definitions for the noun "love".
Wikipedia talks about impersonal love, interpersonal love, various scientific models, and love in various cultures and religions.
Dorothy Parker says "love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away".
Oliver Wendell Holmes says "love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness".
Mark Twain says "love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired".
Erich Fromm says "love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence".
And from various unknown people:
"Love is a friendship set on fire."
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
From 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; it is not self-seeking, not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongdoing. It does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, trusts, hopes, and preserves. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, hope, and endurance. In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love."
I say love is too abstract for me.
