What does it mean to love?

To love with all your heart means to drop all your thorns and understand that the person you love is also perhaps standing in front of you without armor. To love is to live with a naked heart, strong but defenseless, and to cherish someone's heart as your own. To love is to trust the world, like a child, forgetting how cruelly it sometimes treats us. To love is to be gentle, brave and daring. It means to truly live.