Happiness, forgiveness, careing, understanding,

Love is the essence of life.

-- is a precious precious thing that need tender care...

Love is wanting to care for something, and to actively want and seek its wellbeing for all eternity - regardless of what they do or who they are. It is a feeling of eternal and benevolent connectedness. (And as Big Bird in "Bert and Ernie's Sing-along" says, "Love is a really good feeling to have")

Love is being unselfish.

...baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVmbhYKDKfU

It's the best thing to have but the worst thing to loose, especially if it can't be found again.

 Love is the state of mind in which we see things perfectly as not they are. lol

Love is the binding force of the universe.

Love is the ability to accept someone for not just who they are, and what they are, but to also accept that they are not perfect. That they are human, and thus just as flawed as anyone else.