Ages and ages and ages and ages ago I read a Mark Z Danielewski book called 'The Whalestoe Letters', and then not so long ago I read 'House of Leaves' - brilliantly crazy book.
"Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer."
In this case he refers to love as passion.
Love is not about happiness but patience. Love isn't about feeling good a hundred percent of the time but enduring the bad feelings. People suffer through love because love is worth it.
I've never really understood what he meant but after a certain life experience(?) I do understand exactly his perspective.
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