Like entails being fond of someone and enjoying their company or conversing with them. Love entails having strong feelings for someone with all the symptoms of like but an added factor where it is impossible to imagine your life without it. Love can be subjected to family, friends, boyfriend/girlfriend, passion, hobby, profession etc. When you say ‘I like you’, it simply means you adore them. When you say ‘I love you’, that person is very important to you and your life without them is impossible/very difficult. ~ Elisa Beltran
When you like a flower, you just pluck it. When you like someone you want her / him to be yours, but when you love a flower, you water it daily. When you love someone, you will always care, even she / he not belong to you, you feel happy seeing her / him happy. When you & her / him happy, when you still you, when she / he still her / him. Never change her / him for what you want. Never change yourself so she / he will love you. Just be what you are. Let her / him be what she / he is. If you pick to own it, it will die. If you let it free at ground it will live. ~ Edy Gunawan
Love is the only positive energy that transforms all pain, transforms human virtue. When we feel & we love everything everything becomes easier. ~ Imelda Manrue
When you love something or someone there are no concerns as to what you get in return. The sensations of love come from within you. Love rewards by itself – love lives within you. Whereas if you like, you want to have possession, because the minute it is not in your possession the sensations of pleasure that are created by the liking vanish. The sensations acquired from the emotion of liking are insufficient in depth of emotion to give life to the emotions. People who want to control others are possessive because they like what is obtained out of the others rather than love others, which is obtained from self. ~ Garry Scadding
