What is true love?

True love is always kind, even when the person is not kind to you or others. It is always patient, even through times of rush and hurrying. It never envies others, it is content in all things. True love is not about the person giving the love, rather the person getting the love. It never vaunts itself above others or makes itself to be something it is not. True love does not behave rudely, meanly, or spitefully to another person. It never uses people, but rather seeks the good of the other person above the good of itself. True love does is not easily angered or provoked, it thinks no evil about any person. True love doesn't rejoice in sin, instead Biblically confronting others and itself about sin. True love always rejoices in truth, the truth of God.

True love beareth all things: burdens and joys. It believeth all things: the love of others. It hopeth all things: the dreams and aspirations of others. It endureth all things: trials, waiting, and uncertainty.

True love never fails: it is committed to the end.

Henry: Do you really think there is only one perfect mate?
Leonardo da Vinci: As a matter of fact, I do.
Henry: Well then how can you be certain to find them? And if you do find them, are they really the one for you or do you only think they are? And what happens if the person you're supposed to be with never appears, or, or she does, but you're too distracted to notice?
Leonardo da Vinci: You learn to pay attention.
Henry: Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first? And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?

The things that are meant to be are, most often, the things worked the hardest for, committed to the most strongly, and endured through the toughest trials. They are the relationships where the people use the most kindness, the most patience, the most contentment, the most selflessness, the most humbleness, the most confrontation, the most believing, the most hoping, and the most commitment.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

–I Cor. 13:4-8