Love Vs. Friendship Depth

Table of Contents

• Friendship as a Deeper Connection
• Friendship Evolving into Love
• Friendship vs. Love: Contrasts and Comparisons
• Unconditional and True Friendship
• Friendship as Love without Romantic Elements
• Challenges and Tests of Friendship
• Friendship and Love: Philosophical Perspectives
• Friendship's Unique Qualities and Rewards
• The Value and Power of Friendship
• Other

Friendship as a Deeper Connection

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

Friendship is more dangerous than love, since its roots are stronger and go deeper than the roots of love. The anguish of friendship is more bitter than the anguish of love. Certain souls love friendship as others love love; they suffer through friendship as others through love, They have in their lives only one friendship as others have but a single love. It is when they lose friendship that they despair hopelessly.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love.

Friendship is vowing toward immortality and does not know the passing away of beauty (Though take care!) because it aims for the spirit. Many years ago through loss I learned that love is wrung from our inmost heart until only the loved one is and we are not.

True Friendship is better than love

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

Real friends don't forget each other, because Friendship is the most perfect form of love.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.

Friendship Evolving into Love

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

True love is friendship set on fire.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love

Friendship is the start for what you call love.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

For that, surely, is what friendship is all about–about the giving of love and the assurance of love.

I realize now that friendship can break out between two people, with that sudden violence which is only attributed to the revelation of love.

Friendship vs. Love: Contrasts and Comparisons

Love is always more than friendship.

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.

The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.

Love often betrays, but a friend rarely does.

I trusted in friendship rather than love

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

Unconditional and True Friendship

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Friendship or love don't need any reason.

Friendship is a beautiful blessing. You may love your friends and they may love you, but that doesn’t mean they should have unexamined influence in all areas of your life.

Unconditional loving friendship is the foundation for all relationships.

Friendship and love don't come to those who are desperate for it, it comes to those who respect themselves enough not to need it.

Sometimes the love of a friend is the purest kind. Unless you’re rich and very generous, the love of a friend is usually unconditional and more genuine than anything else in the world.

I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.

Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

Friendship as Love without Romantic Elements

Friendship is love without wings.

Friendship is the deepest part of Love

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

The love between friends could create life.

Friendship is the thread that weaves our hearts together with love

Friendship love. This is a very special thing. It’s the sort of love where you know another being’s strengths and weaknesses, perfections and imperfections, and you love the whole package.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

friendship is love made bearable.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

Friendship has many rewards. Love is the culmination of them all.

Challenges and Tests of Friendship

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits

Friendship only exist during happy times. There lies a betrayal line beyond those happy moments.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.

She felt that he could become a very close friend. And to a lonely person, friendship can seem a likely substitute for love.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

At any given time, most relationships are uneven-one person is more in need of support than another. A real friendship is mutually satisfying over the long haul.

Friendship and Love: Philosophical Perspectives

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

In a world where most people are fair-weather friends a real friend ought to be held with both hands, they prove that love is thicker than blood.

Some of the best friendships have been the result of a romantic love gone wrong but the love itself remains strong.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Isn't any friendship a love story?

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.

Friendship's Unique Qualities and Rewards

Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!

Feel The Love in Friendship

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn’t any easier than love.

The Value and Power of Friendship

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

There's no such thing as a regimented friendship or love. - On the Spontaneity of Love and Friendship.

The key to love unlocks the doors of friendship.

Love is friendship set on fire. I get it now.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are highly aligned.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

...i think of friendship in terms of love...

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

The more you lovethe more you'll findthat life is goodand friends are kindand only what we give awayenriches us from day to day.

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When you truly love someone, you can’t just be their friend.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love 'til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other until it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

To me, love has always meant friendship.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

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