Love is friendship that has caught fire.  It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.  It is loyaltly through good and bad times.  It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.  Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it does not brood over the past.  It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals.  If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing.  If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers