101 ways to say "I love you"Those three little words, "I Love You", hold a lot of meaning, but there's more

ways to say them than you think. Here are 101 different ways for you to verbally express your love to your sweetheart.

I adore you. I am infatuated with you. I appreciate you. I can't live without you. I can't stop thinking about you when we're apart. I cherish you. I dream of you. I live for our love. I love being around you. I need you by my side. I need you. I respect you. I value you. I want a lifetime with you. I want you. I worship you. I yearn for you. I'm a better person because of you. I'm blessed to have you in my life. I'm devoted to you. I'm fond of you. I'm lost without you. I'm nothing without you. I'm passionate about you. I'm thankful for you. I'm yours. Me and you. Always. My love is unconditional. Our love is invaluable. Take me, I'm yours. The thought of you brings a smile to my face. Ti tengu cara (to female) or Ti tengu caru (to male). Together, forever. We were meant to be together. You are a blessing in disguise. You are an angel from God. You are like a candle burning bright. You are my crush. You are my dear. You are my everything. You are my one and only. You are my reason for living.

You are my strength. You are my sunshine. You are my treasure. You are my world. You are precious. You are the light of my life. You are the reason I'm alive. You bring happiness to rainy days. You bring joy to my life. You cast a spell on me that can't be broken. You complete me. You drive me wild. You fill me with desire. You fill my heart. You give me wings to fly. You had me from hello. You hold the key to my heart. You inspire me. You intoxicate me. You lift me up to touch the sky. You light my flame. You light up my life. You make me hot. You make my heart skip a beat. You make my world a better place. You mean the world to me. You motivate me. You rock my world. You seduce me. You set my heart on fire. You simply amaze me. You stole my heart. You sweeten my sour days. You turn my world upside down. You turn the darkness into life. You're a dream come true. You're a gem. You're a twinkle in my eye. You're absolutely wonderful. You're all I want. You're as beautiful as a sunset. You're beautiful. You're charming. You're enchanting. You're heavenly. You're my angel.

You're my perfect match. You're one in a million. You're priceless. You're sexy. You're the apple of my eye. You're the best thing that ever happened to me. You're the best. You're the diamond in the rough. You're the one for me. You're the one I've always wished for.

Love, romance and relationship quotes for your soul: 'Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there

love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.' ( Carl Jung)

'Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.' (Thomas Parnell)

'To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.' (Ogden Nash)

'Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.' (Erich Fromm)

'Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.' (Carl Jung)

'This is one of the miracles of love: It gives … a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.' ( C S Lewis)

'Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too.' (Karl A Menninger)

'Life without love is like a treeWithout blossom and fruit.' (Kahlil Gibran)

'Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.' (Theodor Reik)

'A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.' (Mignon McLaughlin)

'No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.'

'Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too.' (Karl A Menninger)

'Soul meets soul on lover's lips.' (Percy Bysshe Shelly)

'What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.' (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

'A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.'(Mignon McLaughlin)

'Other men said they have seen angels,But I have seen theeAnd thou art enough.' (G. Moore)

'Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.' (Mary Parrish)

'When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.'(Elizabeth Bowen)

'To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.' (Ogden Nash)

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? (Robert Browning)

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. (Peter De Vries)

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. (E. E. Cummings)

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. (Ingrid Bergman)

Kiss me as if you made believeYou were not sure this eve,How my face, your flower, had pursedIt's petals up ...(Robert Browning)

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. (Robert Browning)

The moment eternal - just that and no more -

When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the coreWhile cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!(Robert Browning)

First time he kissed me, he but only kissedThe fingers of this hand wherewith I write;And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of a doubt. (Thomas Carlyle)

...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open. (Agnes de Mille)

One kind kiss before we part,Drop a tear and bid adieu;Though we sever, my fond heartTill we meet shall pant for you. (Robert Dodsley)Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? (Henry Finck)

Never a lip is curved with painThat can't be kissed into smile again. (Brete Harte)

You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss. (Daniel Heinsius)

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. (Ernest Hemingway)

Give me a kiss, add to that kiss a score;Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,To make that thousand up a million.Treble that million, and when that is done,Let's kiss afresh, as when we first b(Robert Herrick)No, no, the utmost shareOf my desire shall beOnly to kiss that air,That lately kissed thee.(Robert Herrick)

 You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss... (Herman Hupfeld)She press'd his hand in slumber; so once moreHe could not help but kiss her and adore. (John Keats)Now a soft kiss Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss (John Keats)

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache waslike eating an egg without salt. (Rudyard Kipling)

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!Come Helen, come give me my soul again.Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,And all is dross that is not Helena.(Christopher Marlowe)A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. (Mistinguett)Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

(Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)I never thought that love could feel like this - then you changed my world with just

one kiss. (N Sync)

 A kiss, when all is said, what is it?A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.(Edmond Rostand)

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifthand endures all the rest. (Helen Rowland)

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss herwhen, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? (Helen Rowland) I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,And that's a feeling disputation.- William Shakespeare) Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was madeFor kissing, lady, not for such contempt.(William Shakespeare) ... a wild dissolving blissOver my frame he breathed, approaching near,And bent his eyes of kindling tendernessNear mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss,(Percy Bysshe Shelley)Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.(Song of Soloman) The sunlight claps the earthAnd the moonbeams kiss the sea:What are all these kissings worthIf thou kiss not me?

(Percy Bysshe Shelley) Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.(Jonathan Swift) "Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed," I said.(Coco Chanel) "That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."(George Eliot) "The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."(Emil Ludwig) "Where one drop of blood drains a castle of life, so one kiss can bring it alive again."(Sleeping Beauty) "A kiss is the shortest distance between two."(Henny Youngman) "I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them."(Mae West) "There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one;the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow;the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.(Thomas C. Haliburotn) "If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."(Thomas Carlyle) "You may conquer with the sword,but you are conquered by a kiss."(Daniel Heinsius)

"If this be love, don't speak; kisses are all that's needed."(Author Unknown) "Why every one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow."(Jonathan Swift) 

"Though I know he loves me,Tonight my heart is sad;His kiss was not so wonderfulAs all the dreams I had."(Sara Teasdale) "A man had given all other bliss,And all his worldly worth for this,To waste his whole heart in one kissUpon her perfect lips."(Lord Tennyson) "O love! O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew."(Alfred Tennyson) "Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss.Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;So long!And I hope we shall meet again."(Walt Whitman) Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one.(Frederick Ham) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.(Marlin Finch Lupus) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.(William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth) We can do no great things, only small things with great love.(Mother Teresa)

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.(Agnes Repplier) You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection(Buddha) I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.(John Ciardi)

 Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.(St. Augustine) Love is The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.(Robert Frost) Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.(Voltaire) Some people grumble because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.(Karr) True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.(Antoine De Saint-Exupery) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven(Karen Sunde) Love is a great beautifier.(Louisa May Alcott) All you need is love(John Lennon) The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.(Emerson) The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.(George T. Hewitt) Life is a flower of which love is the honey.(Victor Hugo) In love there are two things bodies and words.(Joyce Carol Oates) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.(Rainer Maria Rilke) Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.(William Faulkner) 

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.(Marc Chagall) The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love(Pearl Bailey) An attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality(Theodore Reik) Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.(Alexis Delp) Love conquers all(Virgil) I would rather live and love where death is king. . . than have eternal life where love is not.(Robert G. Ingersoll) Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.(Vincent Van Gogh)

Where there is great love, there are always miracles(Willa Cather) Love is too strong a word to say it too early, but it has too beautiful a meaning to say it too late.(Kurt Cornish) At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.(Plato) One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.(Sophocles) Love is first friendship and then commitment(Jacques Pierre Ribault) Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.(Japanese proverb) I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.(George Elliot) All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.(Leo Tolstoy)

 Love is friendship set to music.(E. Joseph Crossmann) In love we often doubt what we most believe.(La Rochefoucauld) Talk not of wasted affection. Affection never was wasted.(Longfellow) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.(William Shakespeare)

If I know what love is, it is because of you.(Herman Hesse) For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart, It was not my lips you kissed, But my soul.(Judy Garland) Lust is when you love what you see. Love is when you lust for what's inside.(Renee Conkle) For those who love...time is eternity.(Henry Van Dyke) Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.(Oliver Wendell Holmes) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.(Antoine de Saint Exupery) Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours(Swedish Proverb) There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.(George Sands) We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other(Luciano de Crescenzo) The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.(Benjamin Disraeli) The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved

(Victor Hugo) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished(Goethe)

If you are asking if I need you, the answer is 4ever…if you are asking if I will leave you, the answer is never…if you are asking what I value, the answer is you…if you are asking if I love you the answer is I do.(Anonymous)

You don't love someone because they are beautiful;they are beautiful because you love them!You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments whenyou have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.(Henry Drummond) The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.(Pearl S. Buck) Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.(Mother Teresa) The best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered acts,Of kindness and of love.(William Wordsworth) Think about it, there must be higher loveDown in the heart or hidden in the stars aboveWithout it, life is a wasted timeLook inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.(Steve Winwood) Love does not consist in gazing at each otherbut in looking together in the same direction.(Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.(Benjamin Disraeli) The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

(Victor Hugo) There is no instinct like that of the heart.(Lord Byron) We can only learn to love by loving.(Iris Murdoch)May no gift be too small to give,nor too simple to receive,which is wrapped in thoughtfulnessand tied with love.(L.O. Baird) You come to love not by finding the perfect person,but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.(Sam Keen) Love doesn't make the world go 'round.Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.(Franklin P. Jones) The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity-love. And the story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.(Helen Hayes) "Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."(Louise Hay) "Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it."(Judith Viorst) "No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking."(Francois La Rochefoucauld) "Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;So, when affection yields discourse, it seemsThe bottom is but shallow whence they come.They that are rich in words, in words discover(Sir Walter Raleigh) "Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness

blinds life; love anoints its eyes."(Harry Emerson Fosdick) "Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. Falling in love is not."(M. Scott Peck) "Love … is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else."(Morton Hunt) "Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock."(Mary Parrish)"Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too."(Karl A Menninger) "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."(David Viscott) "It is not love, but lack of love, which is blind."(Glenway Wescott) "It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist."(Muriel Spark) "Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it."(Ned Rorem) "Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more."(Thomas Parnell) "Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love."(Marc Chagall) "Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."(W Stanley Mooneyham) "Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it."(Robert C Solomon) "[Her] love and tenderness … gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones."(Eugene O'Neill)

 "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned."(Somerset Maugham) "As sweet and musicalAs bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair;And when Love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with the harmony."(William Shakespeare)

"This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,Liege of all loiterers and malcontents."(William Shakespeare) "Be of love - a little - more careful than of anything."(E. Cummings) "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."(Peter Ustinov) "Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."(Thornton Wilder) "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."(Erich Fromm) "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it."(Boris Pasternak) "Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."(Theodor Reik)

"Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."(Theodor Reik) "Love is a hole in the heart."(Ben Hecht) For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.(Rainer Maria Rilke) There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.(Mother Teresa) Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out

of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.(Henry Ward Beecher)Treasure the love you receive above all.It will survive long after your good health has vanished.(Og Mandino) All love that has not friendship for its base,is like a mansion built upon the sand.(Ella Wheeler Wilcox) The loving are the daring.(Bayard Taylor) The only gift is a portion of thyself.(Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.(Robert Browning) Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.Down in the heart or hidden in the stars aboveWithout it, life is a wasted timeLook inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.(Cathy Carlyle) Love does not consist in gazing at each otherbut in looking together in the same direction.(Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.(Benjamin Disraeli) Find the person who will love you because of your differences andnot in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.(Leo Buscaglia) Kindness in words creates confidence.Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.Kindness in giving creates love.(Lao Tzu) The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.(Jacques Benigne Bossuel) Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed:

our love to others, and others' love to us.(Thomas Trahern)

Love is always bestowed as a giftfreely, willingly, and without expectation....We don't love to be loved; we love to love.(Leo Buscaglia) It is best to love wisely, no doubt;but to love foolishly is better thannot to be able to love at all.(William Thackeray) Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.(Fulton J. Sheen) We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting placein ourselves for those who love us.(Saint Bernard of Clairvaux) Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.(Elbert Hubbard) We are all born for love...it is the principle existence and it's only end.(Disraeli) To fear love is to fear life,and those who fear life are already three parts dead.(Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell) The dedicated life is the life worth living.You must give with your whole heart.(Anne Dillard) Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.(Oliver Wendell Holmes) What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.(Henry Ward Beecher) "Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."(Carl Jung) "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality … the supreme activity which nature

affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."(José Ortega y Gasset)

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."(Ursula K Le Guin) "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."(Elie Wiesel) "Falling in love is not an extension of one s limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them."(M Scott Peck) "The first duty of love is to listen."(Paul Tillich) "In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."(André Maurois) "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."(Harriet Van Horne) " Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it."(Maurice Chevalier) "This is one of the miracles of love: It gives … a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."(C S Lewis) "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."(Mignon McLaughlin) "One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again."(Judith Viorst) "To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever you're right, shut up."(Ogden Nash) "A fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth."(Martha Duffy)

"To see her is to love her,And love but her forever;For Nature made her what she is,And never made anither! "(Robert Burns) "I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me. I'm in the mood for love." (Dorothy Fields)

 A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving.(Anonymous)

"Love is friendship set to music." ...E. Joseph Crossmann

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love"

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.... Pearl Bailey

"Love is a fire.But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell."... Joan Crawford

The Time I've lost in wooing,In watching and pursuingThe light that liesIn women's eyesHas been my heart's undoing....Thomas Moore

"Perfect love is rare indeed -for to be a lover will require that you continuallyhave 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 no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;no disease that enough love will not heal;no door that enough love will not open;no gulf that enough love will not bridge;no wall that enough love will not throw down;no sin that enough love will not redeem...

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.If only you could love enough you would bethe happiest and most powerful being in the world......Emmet Fox

" I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,in life after life, in age after age forever."...Rabindranath Tagore

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye....Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Time is too slow for those who wait,too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve,too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity.... Henry Van Dyke

"Love is a portion of the soul itself,and it is of the same nature as thecelestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

"The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved,loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"The reduction of the universe to a single being,the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love."...Victor Hugo

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedlyand without law, and must be plucked where it is found,and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."...D.H.Lawrence

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love" "How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physicsso important a biological phenomenon as first love?" "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

THAT'S relativity."...Albert Einstein Quotes

it may not always be so; and I saythat if your lips,which I have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutchhis heart, as mine in time not far away;if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as I know, or suchgreat writhing words as, uttering overmuch,stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;if this should be, i say if this should be-you of my heart, send me a little word; that I may go unto him, and take his hands,saying, Accept all happiness from me.Then shall I turn my face, and hear one birdsing terribly afar in the lost lands.unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home...lovers alone wear sunlight.

love is a place& through this place oflove move(with brightness of peace)all places

yes is a world& in this world ofyes live(skilfully curled)all worlds

"... here is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars aparti carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)..."

may i feel said he(i'll squeal said shejust once said he)it's fun said she

(may i touch said hehow much said she

a lot said he)why not said she

(let's go said henot too far said shewhat's too far said hewhere you are said she)

may i stay said he(which way said shelike this said heif you kiss said she

may i move said heis it love said she)if you're willing said he(but you're killing said she

but it's life said hebut your wife said shenow said he)ow said she

(tiptop said hedon't stop said sheoh no said he)go slow said she

cccome? said heummm said she)you're divine! said he(you are Mine said she)...ee cummings

Existence=Sex & Passion

Glistening moonlight caresses the dewed silk petalsof a lusciousblood red rose, yearning to be experienced,her sweet lusty fragrance uninhibited and irresistible.

Explosive fiery passion bursts from the belly of ourpowerful undulating sun gripping our fertile motherwith a gentle intimate embrace, seeding, warming, feeding, breathing.

Chaotic fluctuating spasms of energy pop in and outof observable space/time, penetrating our linear version of experience

from the unlimited, teasing reality, appeasing subjectivism, achieving bliss.

From floral ecstasy to planetary intercourse,atomic sodomy to parallel universal foreplay,life is sex... passion, orgasm and creation.Copyright©Donovan

the wait

It seemedlike yearsbeforeI pickeda bouquetof kissesoff her mouthand put theminto a dawn-colored vaseinmyheart.

Butthe waitwas worth it.

BecauseIwasin love.... Richard Brautigan

For one human being to love another:that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;the ultimate, the last test and proof,the work for which all other work is but preparation....Rainer Maria Rilke

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."...Erich Fromm

Faults are thick where love is thin...English Proverb

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."...John Lennon

"And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make." -...The Beatles

"People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."...Ken Kesey

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.... Sophocles

The first duty of love - is to listen...Paul Tillich

Any time not spent on love is wasted.... Torquato Tasso

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the budis more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are....Anais Nin

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. ...Henry Miller

"Love is a great beautifier."... Louisa May Alcott

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette,which provides the meaning of life and art.It is the color of love....Marc Chagall

"Do you love me because I am beautiful,or am I beautiful because you love me?"...Cinderella

''Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.''...Jeanne Moreau

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."...Blaise Pascal

"Love conquers all."

...Virgil

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."...Charles Dickens

"I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

"Love is the only gold."...Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Men always want to be a woman's first love--women like to be a man's last romance."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunlessgarden when the flowers are dead.

The consciousness ofloving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to lifethat nothing else can bring."

"Who, being loved, is poor?"...Oscar Wilde

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished....Goethe

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."...Woodrow Wyatt

"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved."...George Elliot

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else.If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."...Sir James M. Barrie

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love....Leo Tolstoy

"LOVE: The irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired."

...Robert Frost

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished."Og Mandino

"Love is a canvas furnished by Natureand embroidered by imagination."...Voltaire

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods."

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."...Plato

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires,and a touch that never hurts."...Charles Dickens

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go"...Herman HesseWild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with theeWild Nights would be our luxury.Futile the winds to a heart in port, Gone with the compassGone with the chart--Rowing in Eden.Ah the Sea! Might I but moor-- Tonight in thee ....Emily Dickinson

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons,longing, as all individuals do,to overcome the separateness and isolationto which we are all heir because we are individuals,can participate in a relationship that, for the moment,is not of two isolated selves but a union.... Rollo May

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then heasked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and firstI put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me sohe could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart wasgoing like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes...James Joyce