It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
~ Norman Lindsay.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?
~ Oscar Hammerstein.