It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the read more

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else read more

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my read more

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.