it is simple to me

love requires attention, constant work. it is never going to be easy.
people, men and woman, are all unique, simply different, and that difference is always going to stand in the way of the easy road.
taking the easy road for love never existed because that is not true love.
loving someone takes effort, responsibility, compassion.
you have to decide to love someone. the feelings alone won't take you to the end.
people fall in and out of love all the time, it's about never truly giving up that matters.
it's about never saying the words, 'i quit.'
it's about doing what you can to look at that person and simply know how much they mean to you.
love is and always will be hard.
but it's rewards are unfathomable. something greater than anything we can receive.
love is God's gift to us here on earth.
that gift can be difficult to give and receive at times but it is always there in the choices we make.

"...they all seemed to know something God knows: that we are sent here to love each other and to help each other- that our lives are about each other." (Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open)

love is.