sharing an intimate secret

in front of a fireplace crackling,

with two mugs of hot chocolate

in a romantic winter scene.

Dave Davidson

a warm hand

on a cool night.

Don Witmer

a tuxedo rental

repeated, revived,

renewed, recycled

and ready to thrive.

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never having to

say you’re sorry.

Eric Segal

the daily delight

and bright sunlight

of tenderness and

forgiveness.

Dave Davidson

a second life;

It grows into the soul,

warms every vein and

beats in every pulse.

Joseph Addison

supreme and

unconditional.

Duke Ellington

allowing separateness

in your togetherness.

Diane Gammon

the enchanted dawn

of every heart.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I used to check off

my list to see what I missed,

...looking for hearts off a grocery list.

Matt Malyon

but the discovery

of ourselves in others,

and the delight in

the recognition.

Alexander Smith

born with the pleasure

of looking at each other,

it is fed with the necessity

of seeing each other, it is

concluded with the

impossibility of

separation.

Jose Marti Y Perez

what you’ve

been through

with someone.

James Thruber

a hand made gift.

Diane Gammon

the greatest

refreshment

in life.

Pablo Picasso

a lot like jelly beans.

You have eat bad ones

to enjoy the good ones.

Teresa Zuidema

the only game that is not

called because of darkness.

Anonymous

above all,

the gift of

oneself.

Jean Anouilh

like walking a tightrope while

over Niagara Falls or wading

knee high kissing in a country

stream. It’s the fear of heights

mixed with a cool quenching

of love’s delicate desire.

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like chocolate

you can taste

with your heart

when kissing.

Dave Davidson

a mystery which,

when solved,

evaporates.

Ned Noren

To be a lover will require that you

continually have the subtlety of the

very wise, the flexibility of the child,

the sensitivity of the artist, the

understanding of the philosopher,

the acceptance of the saint, the

tolerance of the scholar, and

the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

you forget like pain.

Nina Bawden

a perpetual hyperbole

Francis Bacon

the union of a want

and a sentiment.

Honore de Balzac

a fan club with

only two fans.

Adrian Henri

a screenplay performed

out on Broadway stage where

each actor and actress are also writers, directors, producers

and stage hands.

Dave Davidson

surfing without a board

and bungee jumping

without a chord.

Hugh Myrrh

transparent,

yet full of color;

A reflecting rainbow

that cannot be held.

Dave Davidson

a dictionary and

thesaurus with the

pages all glued

together.

Hugh Myrrh

oneself without guarantee,

to give oneself completely

in the hope that our love

will produce love in

the loved person.

Erich Fromm

a gracious

and beautiful art.

Havelock Ellis

to stop comparing.

Bernard Grasset

at first sight only realizing

an imagination that has

always haunted us.

William Hazlitt

to communicate to the other

that you are all for him, that you

will never fail him or let him down

when he needs you, but that you

will always be standing by with all

the necessary encouragements.

Ashley Montague

the business of the idle,

but the idleness of the busy.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

the affirmative of affirmatives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

not altogether a delirium,

yet it has many points

in common.

Thomas Carlyle

sensational,

but not senseless.

but not irresponsible.

but never lacks respect.

thriving best in reality.

protecting the best within us.

but not its exclusive avenue.

Dave Davidson

a comedian who jokes fun,

but never pokes fun at anyone.

Hugh Myrrh

making a choice to continue

making the choice to love true.

Cyrano De Words-u-lac

a telephone wire intertwining

those distance deprives.

Dave Davidson

to take a chance.

Amy Grant, Wayne Kirpatrick & Michael W. Smith

answering all love asks,

taking off small masks.

Cyrano De Words-u-lac

dreamy and daring,

dangerous and delicate,

comfortable and cautious,

intricate and intimate.

Dave Davidson

sure and at its best

when pure and honest.

Cyranos De Words-u-lac

that two solitudes protect

and touch and greet each other.

Rainer M. Rilke

to believe, to hope, to know

--a taste of heaven below.

Adapted from Edmund Waller

space and time

measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

the fairest and most

profitable guest a reasonable

creature can entertain.

Richard Role

a little haven of refuge

from the world.

a wedding day in May,

a honeymoon in June

and never doubting

why ever in July.

Dave Davidson

when a person’s. . .

own boundary expands

to include the you, the other,

that was previously outside himself.

Fredereick S. Peris

the mood of believing in miracles.

John C. Powys

the association of two beings

for the benefit of one.

Countess Nathalie

misunderstanding.

Oscar Wilde

the reduction

of the universe

to a single being,

the expansion of

a single being.

Victor Hugo

an expression of

the communion

between persons.

Thomas Merton

 

renunciation of

one’s personal comfort.

Leon Tolstoy

the true means by which

the world is enjoyed.

Thomas Traherne

an act of endless forgiveness,

a tender look which

becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

never missing

a chance to add

a bit of sunshine

in someone’s life.

Diane Gammon

not getting, but giving.

Henry Van Dyke

the heart’s immortal thirst

to be completely known

and all forgiven.

Henry Van Dyke

singing a solo of the

Star Spangled Banner

in front of one person

day after day after day.

Dave Davidson

that condition in

which the happiness

of another person

is essential to

your own joy.

George Eliot

of all the passions

the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head,

the heart and the senses.

Voltaire

an irresistible desire

to be irresistibly

desired.

Robert Frost

its jealousy unyielding as the grave.

It burns like blazing fire like a mighty flame.

Many waters cannot quench love;

rivers cannot wash it away.

Songs Of Songs 8:6,7

. . . sentiment. . .

the universal thirst

for a communion

not merely of the senses,

but of our whole nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

a gross exaggeration of

the difference between

one person and

everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

the supreme value around

which all moral values can be

integrated into one ethical system

valid for the whole of humanity.

Pitrim Sorokin

in its very essence is liberty:

it is compatible neither with

obedience, jealousy, nor fear:

it is. . . most pure, perfect, and

unlimited where its votaries

live in confidence, equality,

and unreserve.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

made by two

people, in different

kinds of solitude.

Jose-Pierre Louis Aragon

to a match,

as lips are to

striking it’s

scratch.

Cyrano De Words-u-lac

Love in your heart

wasn’t put there to stay.

give it away.

a little foolishness

and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

a spirit all compact of fire.

William Shakespeare

looking outward together

in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Expire

We always

believe our first

our last love our first.

George Whyte-Melville

an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The most powerful symptom

becomes at times almost

insupportable.

Victor Hugo

mood of believing in miracles.

John Cowper Powys

Oliver Wendell Holmes

that has caught fire!

Ann Landers

eternal and enduring,

constant and continuous,

endearing and everlasting.

Rose Angelo

her birthday. Even though you had

to write a note to yourself and stick

it on the dashboard of your car.

Michael Boniwell

Youth’s for an hour,

the jewel that wins the world.

Moira O’Neill

with the heart; to admire

is to love with the mind.

Gautier

it is because of you.

Herman Hesse

when, for no reason,

you see mundane things that

have always been there and

find them beautiful.

Michael Boniwell

an attempt to change

a piece of the dream

world into reality.

Theodore Roethke

magic touch of stars.

Walter Benton

Those in love make it big!

Author Unknown

weapon we need.

Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard

that it always seems

too little or too much.

Amelia Barr

telling someone

you love them.

Dave Davidson

the gross exaggeration

of the difference between one

George Bernard Shaw

as personal and private

as the one you love.

Hugh Myrrh

Can love really be satisfied

with such polite affections?

Can he really love her?

Can the soul really be satisfied

with such polite affections?

on fire, all full of passion...

Marianne in Sense and Sensibility (1995)

adapted screen play by Emma Thompson

man’s attempt to

no longer think.

G. Bennett

dreaming about the one

you love, only awake and find

they are next to you.

Dave Davidson

the adaptation and

cooperation of toothpaste

tube squeezing methods.

Hugh Myrrh

the desire of forthcomings

the acceptance of shortcomings,

and approval of homecomings.

Dave Davidson

Applause may be

Pepe in Adventures of Pinocchio, (1996)

where reality seeks reverie,

fantasy finds fact a facade,

and dreams are lifelike.

Dave Davidson

I’m not a smart man,

.

Forrest Gump

the affinity of intimacy,

the rhapsody of ecstasy,

and the tenderness

of sensuousness.

like a police car with

sirens and flashing lights.

And after the initial inspection

sometimes you’re taken in.

Dave Davidson

To love and lose, the next best.

William M. Thackeray

and those who fear life are

already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

result, reflex,

reward, reprise;

the recipe, reverie,

reception, reverence

refining, reflection;

the refreshment,

and responsibly,

the reinvestment,

and resemblance;

the rejuvenation,

and revelation,

of love.

Dave Davidson

a distracted

back massage.

Dave Davidson

never demanding

and always understanding.

Cyrano De Words-u-lac

feeling home sweet home

when a winter storm

is forecasted.

Dave Davidson

Love anything and your heart

will be wrung and possibly broken.

If you want to make sure of keeping

it intact you must give it to no one,

not even an animal. Wrap it carefully

round with hobbies and little luxuries;

avoid all entanglements. Lock it up

safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe,

dark, motionless, airless - it will change.

It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

C.S. Lewis

once given never forgotten,

never let it disappear.

John Lennon

and when that love is somehow

parted it's something deep down

inside that wants just a reminder,

a slice of memory, a possession.

Unknown

finds true commitment.

Dave Davidson

either a drag strip,

Dave Davidson

a fast track day at work,

met with slow kiss hello.

Dave Davidson

A woman who pretends

sings at night when he is afraid.

John Lennon

full of emotion,

you experience

a wonderful feeling,

Like a trip through the ocean

or a voyage through our living.

One day a wave told me:

"If your love is true,

not even the strongest sea

would separate you two."

Pat from Barranquilla

calling off work

because you’re in love.

Dave Davidson

something eternal;

the aspect may change,

but not the essence.

Aristotle

Life is the flower

the honey.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The truth is that there is

only one terminal dignity - love.

we are permitted of eternity.

Vincent Van Gogh

a fruit in season at all times,

and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa

in your deepest thoughts.

Nothing else matters, except

your wonderful love.

Petrach

a New Year’s Eve kiss at

the stroke of midnight.

Dave Davidson

a mirror that reveals secrets,

refines perception, and reflects

reality into romance.

Dave Davidson

a steamy window

on a foggy night.

Dave Davidson

home that our feet may leave,

but not our hearts.

Victor Hugo

foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

Helen Hayes

discovering a new side

of yourself while sharing

the shadow of another.

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