Russell's experience helps explain why the world is in such need of love. If love offered was always returned, there would be enough to go around. If love always won the day, many more of us would be inspired to act lovingly even in the toughest circumstances. But love is not always returned. And sometimes when love is returned, it is redefined to fit our own interests.
Love often means different things to different people.
Is A Many Splendored Thing. Even in common conversation that we all understand, we use the word love to refer to a variety of things. For example, I might say that . . . It's obvious that love means different things to different people and that we all use the word in various ways. The danger is that when a word can mean so many different things, it can end up meaning nothing at all.