love is kind. It does not envy,

it does not boast, it is not proud.

1 Corinthians 13:4

and there is a rush inside, for it will never occur again,

and you were witness to her splendid soar. Suddenly you

look around, and realize, no one else is present to share this

twinkling of nature. How much better at that moment

of momentous descent, to reach out and hold

a hand, words not needed, not expected.

Becca Lynn

There’s more love to live

than once treasured.

There’s more love to give

than once measured.

There’s always more room

where love begins to bloom.

Dave Davidson

Only when a heart is

willing to be broken can

two hearts

join in a journey of true love.

Dave Davidson

The meeting of two personalities

is like the contact of two chemical substances:

if there is any reaction both are transformed.

Carl G. Jung

Kissing is like chemistry class without

the safety mask… mixing and comparing

elements, adjusting rising heat levels

while discovering compatabilites.

Dave Davidson

Love is in the poetry, the music, the flowers,

the perfume, the dancing, the moonlight sky,

the shimmering dresses, the smoothest of men,

the eye batting beauty, the ocean by morning,

the tender kisses at night, the long flowing tendrils,

the way he says my name, the mountains in winter,

the sunset's water reflection. All these possibilities

feed your romantic spirit and keep it alive.

Becca Lynn

Love...is not rude,

it is not self seeking,

it is not easily angered,

it keeps no record of wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:5

Becca Lynn

Every castle

has a dungeon,

every pool has a drain,

every heart can be broken,

for no heart remains

the same.

Dave Davidson

If passion drives,

let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

All passions exaggerate:

it is because they do that

they are passions.

Nicholas Chamfort

Supreme balance is required

when aiming your passions towards

another’s heart. It is delicately dangerous,

like walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls.

Dave Davidson

A man in passion rides a horse

that runs away with him.

C.H. Spurgeon

Yes,

timing is everything

for the initiation

of affection.

Dave Davidson

...passionate words of love

delivered by whisper

to anxious ears, have yet to

lose their magical affect.

Becca Lynn

Affection

is a sweet confection

attractive to the taste.

Affection

is an subtle inspection,

an embrace at the waist.

Dave Davidson

Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding the rhythm of the stanza.

She has been the spring where from I have drawn the words. She is the poem of my life.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

As soon as you cannot keep anything

from a woman you love her.

Paul Geraldy

Cherishing

a woman means

spinning her around

the kitchen and telling

her how incredible she is.

Becca Lynn

We cage the birds

with the biggest wings.

Matt Malyon

The ability of effectively expressing

and understanding emotions rivals

threading a needle in the dark.

Dave Davidson

A heart flustered

is constantly on edge,

battling faith and fate

in a cruel duel, seeking

love's final victory.

Dave Davidson

A kiss is

a contact,

a conviction,

a connection.

Dave Davidson

When cherished,

one undoubtedly feels beautiful.

Play multiplies. The heart becomes light

as arms yearn to hold the deliverer of

this newfound love. Cherishing

is returned, exchanged.

Becca Lynn

If you can find somewhere

to store this flame,

let this love remain.

Call off the fire department

say it’s just false alarms,

let this love find your arms.

Dave Davidson

To cheat oneself out of love

is the most terrible deception;

it is an eternal loss for which

there is no reparation, either

in time or in eternity.

Soren Kierkegaard

I love you without

knowing how, or when, or from

where. I love you straightforwardly,

without complexities or pride; so

I love you

because I know no other way...

Pablo Neruda

Love is something like the clouds

that were in the sky before the sun came out.

you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad

the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after

a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you

feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Annie Sullivan

Romance is a mood, an attitude;

a necessary food for the heart in love.

Dave Davidson

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Jane Austen

Yet love

consumes me,

for what bounds

are there to love?

Virgil

Banish that fear;

my flame can never waste,

For love sincere refines

upon the taste.

Robert Browning

O tell her,

brief is life

but love is long.

Alfred Tennyson

An admirer's appreciation grows

and finds comfort just as slippers

after a long stance of bitter winter weather

while chopping wood outdoors.

Becca Lynn

Love is

of all the passions

the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head,

the heart and the senses.

Voltaire

But to see her was to love her,

love but her and love for ever.

Robert Burns

The type of human being we prefer

reveals the contours of our heart.

Ortega Y Gasset

Adoration

grows when a person's internal

essence shines. In fact, extreme beauty may even be considered a handicap,

for it keeps others at bay, intimidated

to know the real you inside.

Becca Lynn

I used to check off

my list to see what I missed,

...looking for hearts off a grocery list.

I’m not too sure what love is anymore.

Matt Malyon

One doesn’t fall in love; one grows into

love, and love grows in him.

Karl Menniger

Love is a great beautifier

Louisa May Alcott

In a blush, love finds a barrier.

Virgil

Every eye forms its own beauty

Charles G. Harper

I love you for the

mask you don’t wear.

J. Austin

Let us not love with words or tongue

but with actions and in truth.

1 John 3:18

Advanced romance eludes

to extravagant exaggeration,

which in some sense includes

the play of polite persuasion.

Dave Davidson

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

Proverbs 15:1

...where personality glows

brighter than any beautiful look,

where laughter warms another

more than any physical approach.

It is here where adoration flourishes,

one finds true refreshment in another.

Becca Lynn

Beauty

is the gift of God.

Aristotle

If love

will be true,

half is up to you.

Dave Davidson

...our dream life

has great potential,

it can heal the wounded,

bring up the wonderful past,

and take us into a future

world of our choosing.

Becca Lynn

Love without passion

is an ocean without waves,

with depth of water

lacking thirst which craves.

Love without passion

is a walk on a beautiful beach,

a blanket in the sand

that seems out of reach.

Dave Davidson

Love does not delight

in evil but rejoices in truth.

It always protects, always trusts,

always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Corinthians 13:6

Ultimately, the bond of all companionship,

whether in marriage or friendship,

is conversation.

Oscar Wilde

To be in love

is the dearest wish,

the most welcoming dream

and brightest aspiration

a heart can hope for.

Becca Lynn

All love is sweet, given or returned.

They who inspire it are fortunate,

but those who feel it most

are happier still.

Percy Shelly

Love is a

butterfly

which, when pursued

is just beyond your grasp,

but if you will sit down quietly,

it may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love

unexpressed

is a love that

is less...

Dave Davidson

What is a kiss?

The sure, sweet cement,

glue and lime of love.

Robert Herrick

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;

your mouth is lovely.

Songs of Songs 4:3

Love is kindest,

and hath most strength,

The kisses are most sweet,

When it’s enjoyed in heat of strength,

Where like affections meet.

Patrick Hannay

I have never known love.

to your spirit, then I am in love.

Helen Keller

When you can rest

in the arms of who you love,

when you can take a walk in the

woods and words are not necessary,

when you look at each other at a party

and know what the other is thinking,

a heart content has arrived.

Becca Lynn

Honor

one another

above yourselves.

Romans 12:10

The heart has its reasons

which reason knows

nothing of.

Blaise Pascal

What’s

the earth

with all its art,

verse, music worth-

compared with love,

found, gained and kept.

Robert Browning

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13 a

Love is for fools

wise enough to

take a chance.

Amy Grant, Wayne Kirpatrick & Michael W. Smith

from the song, "Love Can Do" by

Its always rough

waiting to make your move

until everything seems smooth.

Dave Davidson

Life takes on new meaning,

a new outlook. When a heart embraces

romance, one jumps out of bed in the

morning; slumber ceases to exist.

Becca Lynn

The supreme

happiness of life is the

conviction

that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

The moment the mind interferes

with love, or the will fixes on it, or the personality assumes of it as an attribute,

or the ego takes possession of it,

It is not love any more,

it’s just a mess.

D.H. Lawrence

Romantic love

is an effort of initiative

in a great discovery

of gifts to give.

Dave Davidson

Give all to love,

Obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do everything in love.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Intimate listening

is undivided attention

without the need

to mention.

Dave Davidson

The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy... The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

Nathaniel Branden

Never ever miss

a good bye kiss.

Cyrano De Words-u-lac

We are each of us

angels with only one wing.

And we can only fly

embracing each other.

Luciano de Crescenzo

Love is never genuine if forced,

so one must commit the other's

response to the power of time,

the power of prayer and patience.

Becca Lynn

The dream

is in the journey,

it’s been there

all along.

Robert Rottet

Is not this the

true romantic feeling-

not to desire to escape life,

but to prevent life from

escaping you?

Thomas Wolfe

The

beauty

of romance

is limitless.

Becca Lynn

...there are myths

which displace truth

and myths which give

wings to truth.

William Ernest Hocking

A kiss is a magic trick

where two people know the method,

but still act amused with the result.

Dave Davidson

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark,

or an exclamation point.

Mistinguett

Enhance

the chance

of romance

with a dance.

Cyrano De Words-u-lac

Where’s your heart

when love’s in reach,

when parrots speak soft lies,

when doves on the beach

are peace in disguise.

Dave Davidson

Kissing

is a physical debut

which stars the very part

of the body that speaks

words of love.

Dave Davidson

Love is a capricious creature

which desires everything and can be

contented with almost nothing.

Madeline De Scudery

The greatest discovery of any generation

is that human beings can alter their lives

by altering their attitudes of mind.

Albert Schweitzer

Like pastels to a flower,

the scent of passionate perfume

emits an effervescent power

when love begins to bloom.

Dave Davidson

Love is an attempt

to change a piece of the

dream-world into reality.

Theodore Roethke

Love is not love until

love’s vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke

This is when

the refining begins

melting motives into purity.

When I love without reward

without connection, without

regard for my affections-

Dave Davidson

Love is most nearly itself

when here and now cease to matter.

T.S. Eliot

Real love is a pilgrimage.

It happens when there is no strategy,

but it is very rare because most

people are strategists.

Anita Brookner

In the soul of each heart

a reservoir of love resides,

a river ready to spring forward,

a waterfall ready to descend...

to where love abides.

Dave Davidson

The need to surrender is one of the

great paradoxes of love. Surrender may seem

like giving up. Or giving in. But in reality we

are strengthened when we actively choose to make ourselves vulnerable. We are empowered by sharing our deepest self with another person, offering

him or her our heart, our soul our life.

Ellen Sue Stern

Love feels no burden,

thinks nothing of trouble,

attempts what is above it’s

strength, pleads no excuse

of impossibility...

Thomas A Kempis

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy

when it is everything as well. Devastation, balm,

obsession, granting and receiving excessive value,

and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what

you are not but might be. It sears and it heals.

It is beyond pity and above law.

It can seem like the truth.

Florida Scott Maxwell

Of all forms of caution,

caution in love is perhaps

the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertland Russel

While we ponder when to

begin it becomes too late.

Quintilian

God can’t give us happiness and peace

apart from Himself, because it is not there.

There is no such thing.

C.S. Lewis

There are three principal postures of love:

it gives with joy, receives with appreciation,

and rebukes with humility and hope.

Albert M. Wells, Jr.

We would often be sorry

if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

Blessed is the influence of one true,

loving human soul on another.

George Elliot

The manner of giving

is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille

There is nothing like a dream

to create the future.

Victor Hugo

God will only mend

a broken heart when He

is given all the pieces.

There are souls in this world which

have the gift of finding joy everywhere

and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Faber

It is always good to know, if only being in passing,

a charming human being; it refreshes our lives

like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

George Eliot

though a bad regulator,

is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Nothing happens

unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere

of activity in which we are permitted to

remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

which overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber & E.B. White,

Sensual pleasures passes and

vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the

friendship between us, the mutual confidence,

the enchantment of the soul, these things do

not perish and can never be destroyed.

I shall love you until I die.

Voltaire

To be in love is

merely to be in a state of

perceptual

H.L. Mencken

Putting your arms

around the one you love

is a continuous compliment.

Dave Davidson

The sound of a kiss is not so

loud as that of a cannon, but it’s

echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is a canvas

furnished by nature and

embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

Romance cannot be put into quantity

production--the moment love becomes

casual, it becomes commonplace.

Frederick Lewis Allen

Love is a

delightful day's journey.

At the farther end kiss your

companion and say farewell.

Ambrose Bierce,

When you realize you want

to spend the rest of your life

with somebody, you want

the rest of your life

to start as soon as possible.

Billy Crystal -When Harry Met Sally

The more I think about it,

the more I realize there is nothing

more artistic than to love others.

Vincent Van Gogh

To love and win is the best thing.

To love and lose, the next best.

William M. Thackeray

At the touch of love

everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

The course of true love

never did run smooth.

Shakespeare

in this life are something to

do, something to love, and

something to hope for.

Addison

In dreams and in love

there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arany

Romance has been elegantly defined

as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

Romance, like a ghost,

eludes touching. It always is

where you were, not where you are.

Curtis

A mixture of admiration and pity is one

of the surest recipes for affection.

Andre Maurois

We are all together alone

meeting in a mutual solitude;

We share a common home,

with love constantly pursued.

Dave Davidson

You’re the cellist

and I, a delicate instrument.

You melodically strike in me

calm chords of contentment.

Dave Davidson

The glory of the day was in her face,

The beauty of the night was in her eyes.

James Weldon Johnson

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wrapped around your arms…

I’m surrounded by your endless charms,

engulfed and overwhelmed

with the chemistry of you and me,

me and you intimately.

Dave Davidson

Love is a mystery which,

when solved, evaporates.

Ned Noren

Love requires boldness,

and spoils bashfulness.

Thomas Fuller

Reaching out

creates space,

leaves room,

opens hearts

for someone,

some fine day

to then reach in.

Dave Davidson

Tarnished, varnished my eyes

are in an air brushed harness.

It affects how we see each other...

False seed, imagery, corrupting my philosophy, creates a ladder no one can climb... I fight the battle for my mind.

Matt Malyon

You will find, as you look

back upon your life, that the

moments that stand

out are the moments when you

have done things for others.

Henry Drummond

Love is the triumph of

imagination over intellegence.

H.L. Mencken

Love works miracles every day:

such as weakening the strong,

and strengthening the weak;

making fools of the wise,

and wise men of fools;

favouring the passions,

destroying reason,

and, in a word,

turing everything

topsy-turvy.

Marguerite De Valois

Romantic love ‘happens’;

it is not brought about; one falls in love.

The person is obsessed with the loved one

and is unable to concentrate on anything else.

The person loses all desire to remain independent, and instead desires to merge and subsume

....into the other.

Margaret Horton

Perfect love is rare indeed ...

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

There is always

something left to love.

And if you ain’t learned that,

you ain’t learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

The best and most

beautiful

things in the world cannot

be seen or even touched.

They must be felt with the heart.

Hellen Keller

Love consists in this,

that two solitudes protect and

border and salute each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The fate of love

is that it always seems

too little or too much.

Amelia Barr

If men knew all

that women think,

they’d be twenty times

more daring.

Alphonse Karr

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld

There are times when more honor

is bestowed in the absence of a kiss,

leaving only a trace of hope’s intention

in a gentle hugging nudge.

Dave Davidson

Sometimes the best way to "fix" a sad somber emotion

for someone is to offer a hug and listen and learn and understand… leaving what’s broken broke.

Dave Davidson

I fear sharing my words and writings with you

because I am a writer.

I fear you may be tempted to think that I am writing to write,

and not writing to capture the pulse of my trembling heart-

the constant beating tidal effect you have on it.

Though there are times I write to write;

there are times when I write to live,

to record value in a thought

and virtue in small desires.

Dave Davidson