Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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