Love is like water.

The physical life has needs that are shared by all: comfort, freedom of pain, emotional peace. Everyone shares in the need to be loved. Everyone shares in the capacity, the potential to be loving. Not all human beings are loving toward one another, but all human beings need to be loved. It is a basic component to human life. You cannot long survive without love just as you cannot long survive without water. Love is as essential to human life as water.