Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.
There is no art without Eros.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.
Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.