50 Inspirational Quotes About Couples That Will Melt Your Heart

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

- Nicole Krauss

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

- Bruce Lee

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time."

- Julia Child

"We loved a love that was more than love."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

- Plato

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

- Oscar Wilde

"The highest happiness on earth is marriage."

- William Lyon Phelps

"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do."

- David Wilkerson

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

- Sophocles

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

- George Eliot

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."

- Katharine Lee Bates

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

- Christopher Marlowe

"When you fall in love, the natural thing is to give yourself to it. That’s what I think. It’s just a form of sincerity."

- Haruki Murakami

"The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace."

- Fawn Weaver

"It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be."

- Michelle Yeoh

"You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

- Oscar Wilde

"I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once."

- John Green

"A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not what we’re pretending to be."

- Richard Bach

"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."

- When Harry Met Sally

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Love is not about property, diamonds, and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you."

- Pablo Neruda

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make — not just on your wedding day, but over and over again — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

- Barbara de Angelis

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

- Henry Miller

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry."

- Tom Mullen

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

- Rita Rudner

"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me."

- Roy Croft

"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage."

- Martin Luther

"Maybe you don't need the whole world to love you. Maybe you just need one person."

- Kermit the Frog

"Where there is love, there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To be fully seen by somebody then and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

- Maya Angelou

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

- David Viscott

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever."

- Alfred Tennyson

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If I get married, I want to be very married."

- Audrey Hepburn

"We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love."

- Robert Fulghum

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."

- Leo Buscaglia

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

- Jimi Hendrix

"To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give."

- Franka Potente

"You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together."

- Woody Harrelson

"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

"A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."

- Dave Meurer

"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."

- Sam Levenson

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."

- Andre Marois

"Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with."

- Charles Dickens

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."

- Pearl S. Buck

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do."

- Jane Austen

"Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be."

- Robert Browning

"Two hearts in love need no words."

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"Love is being stupid together."

- Paul Valéry

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

- Albert Einstein

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

- Helen Keller

"What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul."

- Victor Hugo

"When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."

- Arrigo Boito

"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."

- E.E. Cummings

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

- James Russell Lowell

"You will find your way. It is in the same place as your love."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"Let the love you give come back and find a place in you."

- Harpreet M. Dayal

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

- Arthur Rubinstein

"Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

- Kahil Gibran

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."

- Thomas Merton

"Love cures people—both the ones who gives it and the ones who receive it."

- Karl Menninger

"Eventually you will comes to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."

- Gary Zukav

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

- Barbara de Angelis

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, if not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

- Dalai Lama

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Make everyday decisions from a place of love."

- Anita Moorjani

"There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier."

- Melissa Etheridge

"Love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb."

- Stephen Covey

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."

- Jack Layton

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once."

- E. Joseph Cossman

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

"For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."

- Paul Sweeney

"Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love."

- Alison Malee

"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did."

- C.S. Lewis

"The bride and groom — may their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love."

- Minna Thomas Antrim

"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule."

- Friedrich Max Müller

"Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from."

- Nora Ephron

"We must strive everyday so that love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."

- Ernesto Che Guevara

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

- Winston Churchill

"Perhaps the biggest mistake I made in the past was that I believed love was about finding the right person. In reality, love is about becoming the right person."

- Neil Strauss

"A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple."

- Tzipi Livni

"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are."

- Will Ferrell

"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."

- Samuel Daniel

"Think not because you are now wed, that all your courtship’s at an end."

- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

"To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice."

- Rupi Kaur

"Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January."

- Jim Gaffigan

"Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words."

- Melanie White

"Romantic love is painful."

- will.i.am

"You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you."