Love is to love someone as a person, have strong feelings towards them because of who they are, and how they treat you. To be in love is to have extremely strong emotions towards a certain person because of who they are, and who you are when you are with them. To be in love is to love their good qualities, along with their bad. It's a more spiritual connection shared between two people. To be in love is to put the other person before yourself and do everything in your power to make them happy.