Gandhi isn't merely saying that brave people love better—he's identifying something more troubling: that cowardice *prevents* love altogether, as if fear calcifies the heart rather than merely weakening the hand. Love, by his logic, demands a willingness to be hurt, rejected, or exposed, which demands precisely the courage most people lack. When you watch someone stay in a comfortable but hollow marriage rather than risk the vulnerability of honest connection, you're seeing this principle at work—not an absence of feeling, but an absence of the bravery that transforms feeling into something real.