"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Your morality demands that you divorce your love from values and hand it down to any vagrant; not as response to his worth, but as response to his need, not as reward, but as alms, not as a payment for virtues, but as a blank check on vices."- A. Rand from Atlas Shrugged

Let's face it, the ones we truly Love, by the definition of love, are those we deem deserving of it by the standards we have set.  The love we feel for another in an intimate relationship is not one of alms and selflessness but one of selfish personal pleasure. We want their happiness so much more because it makes us happy to see that. To throw around the term "love" to anything takes away the value of the word. To "love" everything is to love nothing. Do not tell me that you love me or that God loves me or that you love me because God loves me. I know better than to believe that what you call "love" is actually love.

Thank you. That is all.