- Albert Camus

Some cry:: ‘Love me!!’ Others:: ‘Don’t love me!!’ But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries:: ‘Don’t love me and be faithful to me!!’

- Robert Browning

God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.

- Anonymous

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.

- Emily Brontë

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?

- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)

- George David Birkhoff

The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society.

- George Albert Smith

With love in my heart for every one of you, may I say I am grateful. I haven't any way of expressing my thanksgiving to the people of this Church and many people out of the Church, for their kindnesses to me, one of the humblest of our Father's sons. I wish I could return in full measure all the good which has been done for me.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

- Jack H. Goaslind, Jr.

Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

- Agnes Repplier

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

- Robert Browning

All’s love, yet all’s law.

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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

- Anonymous

A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world.

- Anacreon

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

- Nora Roberts

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

- Joan Collins

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he’s finished.

- H. L. Mencken

There are two times in every man's life when he is thoroughly happy; just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one.

- William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove::O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken.It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle’s compass come;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom,If this be error, and upon me prov’d,I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.

- William Shakespeare.

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

- Henry David Thoreau

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

- Tony Snow

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

- Erich Fromm

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

- Anonymous

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

- Daisaku Ikeda

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

- Anonymous

If you want something very, very badly,Let it go free.If it comes back to you, It’s yours forever.If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with. 

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

- Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

- Cullen Hightower

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

- Empedocles

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife’s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.

- William Shakespeare

See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!O that I were a glove upon that hand,That I might touch that cheek!

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How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things:: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish.

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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. 

- Anonymous

Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

The best proof of love is trust.

- William Shakespeare

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor'd youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:: On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd. But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? O, love's best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told:: Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.

- Florence Allshorn

I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it.

- Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and be wise.

- William Shakespeare

. . . but you are wise, Or else you love not, for to be wise and love Exceeds man's might . . .

- Elizabeth Bowen

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

- Samuel Butler, the older

All love at first, like generous wine,Ferments and frets until ‘tis fine;But when ‘tis settled on the lee,And from th’ impurer matter free,Becomes the richer still the older,And proves the pleasanter the colder.

- Samuel Butler, the older

For money has a power aboveThe stars and fate, to manage love.

- John Milton

Freely we serve,Because we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall.

- Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love noneWe love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

- Thomas S. Monson

When I opened the door, there I would see a man, sometimes two, ill-clothed, ill-fed, ill-schooled. Generally, such a visitor held in his hand the familiar cap. His hair would be tousled, his face unshaven. The question was always the same:: "Could you spare some food?" My dear mother invariably responded with a pleasant, "Come in and sit down at the table." She would then prepare a ham sandwich, cut a piece of cake, and pour a glass of milk. Mother would ask the visitor about his home, his family, his life. She provided hope and words of encouragement. Before leaving, the visitor would pause to express a gracious thank-you. I would note that a smile of content had replaced a look of despair. Eyes that were dull now shone with new purpose. Love, that noblest attribute of the human soul, can work wonders. 

- David B. Haight

Knowing that we should love is not enough. But when knowledge is applied through service, love can secure for us the blessings of heaven.

- Anonymous

Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.

- Robert Lee Frost

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

- Robert Scheid

The only person to whom your love belongs is the one to whom your love belongs.

- Robert Burton

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

- Saint Augustine

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God:: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

- John Donne

Who ever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick.

- Anonymous

Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.

- James P. De Wolfe, D.D.

Some morning it is likely that the headlines of the world will scream forth the news that New York has been bombed. As tragic as this will be, it will nevertheless accomplish the deep unity that Christians should have. It is a sad commentary that our brotherhood, which exists by Christian love, is only truly cemented by Christian suffering.

- Walt Whitman

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others . . . And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

- Benjamin Franklin

Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.

- R. A. Dickson

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

- Ed Howe

You needn’t love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

- Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that's old:: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

- Alice Cary

He who loves best his fellow-manIs loving God the holiest way he can.

- William Cowper

Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint;Yet I love thee and adore,Oh for grace to love thee more!

- George Gordon, Lord Byron

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

- Meher Baba

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

- Richard Rolle

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

- Barbara Cartland

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.  

- David B. Haight

Love is a gift of God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God’s love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

- William Shakespeare?

Love is a madness most discreet

- Joseph Addison

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. Joseph Addison

- David B. Haight

Someone has written, “Love is a verb.” It requires doing — not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

- Robert Lee Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. 

- Sir Philip Sidney

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread!For Love is dead.

- Vincent van Gogh

Love is something eternal—the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same diflference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is buming. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function.

- Lew Wallace

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God.

- Jeremy Taylor

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love:: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

- Anonymous

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

- Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand, Leave the fingers open and it stays, Clutch it, and it darts away. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) American writer and satirist

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all:: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. 

- Wystan Hugh Auden

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever:: I was wrong.

- Albert Camus

I love life — that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

- Robert Herrick

You say, to me-wards your affection’s strong;Pray love me little, so you love me long.

- Charles Dickens

I love little children—and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us.

- Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

- Walter Lippmann

Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

- Anonymous

A self-centered man admitted:: "Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection." 

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

- Anonymous

Ah, some love Paris,And some Purdue.But love is an archer with a low I.Q.A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity.So I’m in love withNew York City.

- John Donne

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. 

- Anonymous

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

- William Goldman

But love is many things, none of them logical.

- Anonymous

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

- Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

- Felix Adler

Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

- George Bernard Shaw

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

- Jean Baptiste Moliére

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

- Ben Jonson

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

- Rex C. Reeve, Sr.

If men and nations did reach up to God with all their hearts, war would cease. If love of God were in the heart of man, a man would have no desire to destroy his brother.There would be no dishonesty if the love of God were in the heart. If God came first in his life, a man would love his neighbor as himself, and instead of taking from him, he would feel to give.

- Sterling W. Sill

That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

- Delbert L. Stapley

Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.

- George F. Richards

If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

- Reginald John Campbell

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it:: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.

- Francis Bacon

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

- Charles Dickens

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

- Jan van Ruysbroeck

The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.

- Confucius

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

- Dr. Samuel Johnson

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground:: 'T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. 

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another:: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind.

- Anacreon

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. 

- John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton

The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

- Ayn Rand

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money — and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

- William Cullen Bryant

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

- Edward Young

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

- Gibbon

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

- Jerome Klapka Jerome

"Nothing, so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. . . . The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of — of things longer." 

- Ayn Rand

I sat there beside him till morning — and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt:: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved. . . . I did not expect it to be as great as this — or as hard.

- Susa Young Gates

We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.

- Mother Teresa

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. 

- John Tillotson

Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? . . . Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave . . . in the name of our dear Lord . . . to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians. 

- Bill Balance

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

- Robert Browning

Might she have loved me? just as wellShe might have hated, who can tell!

- Woody Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox.

- Mary Martin

When you love others you aren't nervous.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies—or else? The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the abyss of annihilation.

- George Albert Smith

We are commanded to love the Lord with all our heart, with all our might, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Our love should pass beyond the borderlines of the Church with which we are identified.

- George Matthew Adams

The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read:: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!

- William Penn

We are apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than than.

- Sydney King Russel

MIDSUMMER You Loved me for a little, Who could not love me long:: You gave me wings of gladness and lent my spirit song. You loved me for an hour But only with your eyes your lips I could not capture By storm or by surprise Out of a world of laughter Suddenly I am sad... Day and night it haunts me The kiss I never had

- THOMAS MOORE

LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM Oh! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove; When my dream of life, from morn till night, Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come, Of milder calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream: No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream. Though the bard to purer fame may soar, When wild youth's past; Though he win the wise, who frown'd before, To smile at last; He'll never meet A joy so sweet, In all his noon of fame, As when first he sung to woman's ear His soul-felt flame, And, at every close, she blush'd to hear The one loved name. No, that hallow'd form is ne'er forgot Which first love traced; Still it lingering haunts the greenest spot On memory's waste. 'Twas odour fled As soon as shed; 'Twas morning's winged dream; 'Twas a light, tht ne'er can shine again On life's dull stream: Oh! 'twas light that n'er can shine again On life's dull stream.

- JOHN WIMOT

A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER Ancient Person, for whom I all the flattering youth defy, long be it e'er thou grow old, aching, shaking, crazy cold; but still continue as thou art, ancient Person of my heart. on thy withered lips and dry, which like barren furrows lie, brooding kisses I will pour, shall thy youthful heart restore, such kind show'rs in autumn fall, and a second spring recall; nor from thee will ever part, ancient Person of my heart. Thy nobler parts, which but to name in our sex would be counted shame, by ages frozen grasp possest, from their ice shall be released, and, soothed by my reviving hand, in former warmth and vigour stand. All a lover's wish can reach, for thy joy my love shall teach; and for thy pleasure shall improve all that art can add to love. Yet still I love thee without art, ancient Person of my heart.

- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

A MAN YOUNG AND OLD Though nurtured like the sailing moon in beauty's murderous brood, she walked awhile and blushed awhile and on my pathway stood until I thought her body bore a heart of flesh and blood. But since I laid a hand thereon and found a heart of stone I have attempted many things and not a thing is done, for every hand is lunatic that travels on the moon. She smiled and that transfigured me and left me but a lout, maundering here, and maundering there, emptier of thought than the heavenly circuit of its stars when the moon sails out.

- ROBERT BURNS

LOVELY YOUNG JESSIE True hearted was he, the sad swain o’ the Yarrow, and fair are the maids on the banks of the Ayr; but by the sweet side o’ the Nith’s winding river, are lovers as faithful, and maidens as fair: to equal young Jessie seek Scotland all over; to equal young Jessie you seek it in vain, grace, beauty, and elegance, fetter her lover, and maidenly modesty fixes the chain. O, fresh is the rose in the gay, dewy morning, and sweet is the lily, at evening close; but in the fair presence o’ lovely young Jessie, unseen is the lily, unheeded the rose. Love sits in her smile, a wizard ensnaring; enthron’d in her een he delivers his law- and still to her charms she alone is a stranger; her modest demeanour’s the jewel of a’.

- THOMAS MOORE

LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM Oh! the days are gone, when Beauty bright my heart's chain wove; when my dream of life, from morn till night, was love, still love. new hope may bloom, and days may come, of milder calmer beam, but there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream: no, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. Though the bard to purer fame may soar, when wild youth's past; though he win the wise, who frown'd before, to smile at last; he'll never meet a joy so sweet, in all his noon of fame, as when first he sung to woman's ear his soul-felt flame, and, at every close, she blush'd to hear the one loved name. No, that hallow'd form is ne'er forgot which first love traced; still it lingering haunts the greenest spot on memory's waste. 'Twas odour fled as soon as shed; 'twas morning's winged dream; 'twas a light, tht ne'er can shine again on life's dull stream: oh! 'twas light that n'er can shine again on life's dull stream.

- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

TO A YOUNG GIRL My dear, my dear, I know more than another what makes your heart beat so; not even your own mother can know it as I know, who broke my heart for her when the wild thought, that she denies and has forgot, set all her blood astir and glittered in her eyes.

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

ROMEO, IN ROMEO AND JULIET But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou her maid art far more fair than she: be not her maid, since she is envious; her vestal livery is but sick and green and none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were! she speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? her eye discourses; I will answer it. I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks: two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. what if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!

- JOE VIEIRA

FROM FRIENDS TO LOVERS Sometimes I feel sad and sometimes I feel blue but whenever I see you, I'm as happy as can be for you bring a smile upon my face and a feeling of joy within my heart you're like my sunshine in the morning and my stars that glow at night you're like the waves in the ocean the cool breeze in the wind like the call of the birds in the morning dew like the sounds of beauty in the night you see all of these things are of beauty and love that's how I feel whenever you are near for it was the passion and desire from both of us that opened up the world for our eyes to see for our love of each other will grow and grow and our needs and desires will be more everyday for a friend you once were and will always be has turned into love as it should have been so I want you to know as a friend and lover that in my heart and arms you'll always stay for our love for each other will never fade.

- CHRISTINA A. WASHBURN

FIRST CRUSH Her body isn't hers, nor is her mind She finds herself shivering, shaking, blushing, Weak, tormented, sick and going blind And why? Some guy might look her way. Then cast his eyes as quickly to the ground; Some special guy, for reasons she can't say. Whose voice which makes her feel faint When he's around But now my crush on you has returned, And so the two of us will stand on some brink It can't be love so young, and yet we've learned, Love does its will, no matter what we think. Slowly, slowly now-we mustn't rush. Let's enjoy this first teenage crush.

- SUMMER M. BETTCHER

PROMISE ME Could you make this pain go away? Could you fill my empty heart? Could you heal all my wounds? And promise we will never be apart? Promise me you'll never leave, And make everything all right. Promise me when I start to fall, You'll hold on to me tight. Promise me you'll protect me and help wipe my tears, Promise me your love for a few more years. Promise me you'll love me no matter what I do, And I will promise to only love you

- MEAGAN E. EPPLEY