Yes, ” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred. Rebecca West
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When we love we feel we should do more than friendship and that we should be able to give more than we get. However, when things get hard and life throws us a curve ball, we fail to see the big picture and get caught up in all of the little details. By thinking this way we actually do less than friendship would have us do.

Source: The Fountain Overflows

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