Love Quote by Barbara de Angelis

De Angelis turns “difficult times” into a counterintuitive sales pitch for intimacy: suffering, she suggests, doesn’t just test you, it widens your capacity to receive and give affection. The line is engineered to flip the emotional script. Instead of treating hardship as a thief of warmth, it reframes it as a doorway, a spiritual arbitrage where pain can be converted into connection.

The intent is motivational, but not naive. Notice the careful verb choice: “create opportunities” doesn’t promise automatic transformation; it implies a choice point. You can shut down, or you can use crisis as a forcing function to renegotiate what matters. The phrase “experience more love” is also telling. It’s less about love as an abstract ideal and more about love as an event - something lived, felt, practiced. That sidesteps the Hallmark vagueness and points toward behavior: reaching out, forgiving faster, asking for help, showing up.

The subtext is a kind of relational economics. When life gets unstable, the usual props (status, routine, productivity) wobble, and people go looking for sturdier currencies. Love becomes less decorative and more infrastructural: the thing that keeps you human when your identity is under renovation. There’s also a gentle provocation here: if hardship can increase love, then the absence of love in hard times isn’t fate; it’s a missed opening.

Contextually, de Angelis comes out of the self-help and relationship tradition that treats personal crisis as a growth lever. The quote works because it doesn’t romanticize suffering; it reassigns it meaning, offering a usable lens when you’re otherwise tempted to narrate your life as pure loss.