50 Inspiring Quotes for Couples: Love, Growth, and Togetherness

"If you're ever with a girl that's too good for you, marry her."

- Valentine's Day

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

- John Lennon

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Lao Tzu

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

- George Sand

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

- Yoko Ono

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"From all the offspring of the earth and heaven, love is the most precious."

- Sappho

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."

- Toni Morrison

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"The right one does not stand in your way. They make space for you to step forward."

- Rupi Kaur

"You were worth the wait, and I don't just mean tonight."

- Friends

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

- Plato

"Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you."

- Juno

"I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I feel safe when you're holding me near. Love the way that you conquer your fear. You know hearts don't break around here."

- Ed Sheeren, "Hearts Don't Break Around Here"

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, compromise, and give something up to gain something greater."

- Sarah Dessen

"Time, wondrous time, gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies… And isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?"

- Taylor Swift

"It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

- E.M. Forster

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."

- John Green

"Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone."

- Cecelia Ahern

"Don't read the last page. But I stay when you're lost, and I'm scared, and you're turning away. I want your midnights. But I'll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year's Day."

- Taylor Swift, "New Year's Day"

"Don't promise me fair sky above. Don't promise me kind road below. Just walk beside me, love, any way the wind blows."

- Hadestown, "Promises"

"I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I'd never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him."

- Blake Lively

"The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Meeting John really changed my life. When I feel the support that I have from him, I feel invincible. There's someone behind you on your good days, and someone in front of you on your bad days."

- Emily Blunt

"When you're lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can't get better than that."

- John Krasinski

"If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president, being married to Michelle Obama is number one."

- Barack Obama

"When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster."

- Taylor Swift

"We support each other in everything that we do and I love seeing her succeed at the things she loves to do and she loves seeing me succeed at things that I love to do. That's the way you should be with your partner."

- John Legend

"In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free."

- Maya Angelou

"Love is the only gold."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"If you wished to be loved, love."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

- Swedish Proverb

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

- Sam Keen

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

- Maya Angelou

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story."

- Jennifer Smith

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough."

- Meghan Daum

"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

- Gabriel Garcia Márquez

"Home will be where the heart is. Never were words so true. My heart's far, far away. Home is too."

- Lisa Kessler

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."

- Truman Capote

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."

- Julia Roberts

"Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall."

- Doug Fetherling

"Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."

- Hans Nouwens

"It’s been a year and three months since we’ve kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else."

- Alishah Khan

"My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"I’ll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms."

- J.M. Barrie

"My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are — you will always have a place to stay."

- K.A. Hill

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

"You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts."

- Rupi Kaur

"My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul."

- Boris Kodjoe

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

- Oscar Wilde

"It was as though each of them had discovered something unexpected but infinitely desirable. They were not yet sure of each other, but they wanted to be."

- Cassandra Clare

"You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you."

- Bob Marley

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."

- Jane Austen

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"Without warning, as a whirlwind swoops on an oak, love shakes my heart."

- Sappho

"It might have been a new way for her heart to beat."

- Philip Pullman

"If it is right, it happens. The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."

- John Steinbeck

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"The best part about getting to know you is anticipating that each day brings new surprises that are all about you."

- Robin Raven

"New love is grand. Savor all the crazy, muddled might of it."

- Eli Easton

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."

- Sarah Dessen

"The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."

- Jane Austen

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

- Thomas Merton

"Love: Two minds without a single thought."

- Philip Barry

"It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes."

- Lucille Ball

"A relationship where you can be weird together is your best choice."

- Paulo Coelo

"As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy."

- Ralphie May

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

- Oscar Wilde

"A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days."

- Tim Allen

"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life."

- Cher

"True love is singing karaoke 'Under Pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part."

- Mindy Kaling

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age — as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."

- Phyllis Diller

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

- Will Ferrell

"I miss crawling into a man’s arm, kissing his neck, saying those three little words into his ear, 'And another thing…'"

- Felicia Michaels

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry."

- Rita Rudner

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

- Jules Renard

"Romantic love is a mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one."

- Fran Lebowitz

"A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart."

- Leo F. Buscaglia

"We are most alive when we are in love."

- John Updike

"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."

- Orhan Pamuk

"Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved."

- William Paul Young

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand."

- Emily Kimbrough

"Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic."

- Frida Kahlo

"A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence."

- Shannon L. Alder

"The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

- Alexander Smith

"Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself."

- Deepak Chopra

"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

- Stephanie Perkins

"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife."

- Prince Philip

"My grandmother famously said that grief was the price we pay for love."

- Prince William

"Personally, I love a great love story."

- Meghan Markle

"This is a great love story, and the craziest thing is that I think this love story is just getting started."

- Prince Harry

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."

- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of The Rings"

"Nothing is safer than the sound of you reading aloud to me—the perfect date."

- Rupi Kaur

"I exist in two places: Here and where you are."

- Margaret Atwood

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."

- Vladimir Nabokov

"A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would."

- Dawson's Creek

"Since the invention of the kiss, there have been only five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind."

- The Princess Bride

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

- Dr. Seuss

"You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught."

- Boris Pasternak

"You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever."

- Love & Other Drugs

"Affection is when you see someone's strengths. Love is when you accept someone's flaws."

- One Day

"Wherever she is, that's where my home is."

- Nicholas Sparks

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time."

- A.A. Milne

"That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too."

- Kaui Hart Hemmings

"We were together even when we were apart."

- Shannon A. Thompson

"I will return. I will find you. Love you. Marry you. And live without shame."

- Atonement

"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true."

- Haruki Murakami

"But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby."

- Lemony Snicket

"Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going."

- Practical Magic

"You are my greatest adventure."

- The Incredibles

"It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."

- Agatha Christie

"But for now let me say, without hope or agenda, to me, you are perfect."

- Love Actually

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

- Alfred Tennyson

"You're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings."

- You've Got Mail

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

- Zora Neale Hurston

"Lonely days of uncertainty, they disappear when you're near me, when you're around my life's worthwhile, and now I long to see you smile."

- Big Star

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."

- JRR Tolkien

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- e.e. cummings

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"In a relationship, each person should support the other; they should lift each other up."

- Taylor Swift

"Never love anybody that treats you like you're ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself—to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart."

- Leo F. Buscaglia

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

- Sophocles

"Never above you, never below you, always beside you."

- Walter Winchell

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

- Arrigo Boito

"Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’"

- Erich Fromm

"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

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

- David Viscott

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude…Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

"A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Where there is love, there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- John Green

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

- Katharine Lee Bates

"Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It's a choice."

- Fawn Weaver

"A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who won't give up on each other."

- Kate Stewart

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

"For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

- Stephanie Perkins

"If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you."

- A. A. Milne

"I love you, and I've loved you all along. I miss you, you've been far away for far too long. I keep dreaming you'll be with me, and you'll never go."

- Nickelback

"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

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all other loves irrelevant."

- Rupi Kaur

"My heart is, and always will be, yours."

- Jane Austen

"In the end, there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to."

- Robert Brault

"I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."

- Cassandra Clare

"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

"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

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"If you have to walk a million miles, I'll wait a million days to see you smile. Distance and time, I'll be waiting."

- Alicia Keys

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"I want to be with you. It's as simple and as complicated as that."

- Charles Bukowski

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

- Barbara De Angelis

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

- Khalil Gibran

"We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them — we can only love others as much as we love ourselves."

- Brené Brown

"The heart that's meant to love you will fight for you when you want to give up, pick you up when you're feeling down, and will give their smile when it's hard for you to find yours. They will never get strength from seeing you weak, power from seeing you hurt, or joy from seeing you cry. The heart that's meant to love you wants to see the best you, not the hurt you! Never forget that."

- Trent Shelton

"Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"True love stories never have endings."

- Richard Bach

"If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart."

- Nicholas Sparks

"I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

"I am proud to have chosen you to love."

- Kamand Kojouri

"I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart."

- Nicholas Sparks

"To me, you are perfect."

- Love Actually

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

- Martin Luther

"We are together even when we are apart."

- Shannon A. Thompson

"If I could live this life again, I would never leave you for a second."

- Clive Owen

"After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it’s comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you’re very lucky, a plane ride away."

- Carrie Bradshaw

"You are the best thing, that’s ever been mine."

- Taylor Swift

"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more."

- Angelita Lim

"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Anyone can love a thing 'because'. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect."

- Patrick Rothfuss

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it."

- Marian Keyes

"You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

"I still haven't figured out how to sit across from you, and not be madly in love with everything you do."

- William C. Hannan

"Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end."

- Madame de Stael

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

- James Baldwin

"Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary."

- Oscar Wilde

"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need."

- Margaret Mead

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."

- Lord Byron

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

- Thomas Fuller

"I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time."

- A.A. Milne

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more."

- Bob Marley

"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you."

- Juno

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

- Princess Diana

"The first duty of love is to listen."

- Paul Tillich

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The best proof of love is trust."

- Joyce Brothers

"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society."

- Maya Angelou

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."

- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"Distance means so little when someone means so much."

- Tom McNeal

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person."

- Sophia Bush

"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."

- Vincent van Gogh

"When I’m weak, you can be strong; when I’m strong, you can be weak. That’s what I believe marriage is."

- Gisele Bundchen

"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

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"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

"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

"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

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."

- Eva Gabor

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

"When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships."

- Lauryn Hill

"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."

- George Eliot

"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands."

- Alexandra Penney

"We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence."

- Cornel West

"Love is a choice you make every day."

- Gary Chapman

"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1) acceptance, 2) understanding, 3) appreciation. Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."

- Vera Nazarian

"True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"It’s true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."

- Mother Teresa

"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

- Leo Buscaglia

"There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes — seize it, don't miss it."

- Max Lucado

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

"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

"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

- Ursula K. LeGuin

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

- Dave Meurer

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

- Martin Luther

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Tom Mullen

"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

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

- Kermit the Frog

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

- Alfred Tennyson

"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

"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

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

"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

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

- The Fault in Our Stars

"Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

- Bob Marley

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

- Jodi Picoult, "My Sister's Keeper"

"Every couple needs to argue now and then, just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys."

- Nicholas Sparks

"You know you've found true love when you catch yourself falling in love with the same person over and over again, despite them being miles away from you."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Fall in love with someone who makes you glad to be different."

- Sue Zhao

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"The pain of parting is nothing compared to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A. A. Milne

"Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more."

- Greg Kinnear

"I exist in two places, here, and where you are."

- Margaret Atwood

"Close together or far apart; you're forever in my heart."

- Harry Styles

"A thousand miles seems pretty far, but they've got planes and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no other way."

- Plain White T's

"There’s a little bit of loser in us, just two weirdos who fell in love. I guess we’re made from the same weird stuff, so being a loser with you doesn’t suck."

- Jillian Moon

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you found that one person who is really worth the sacrifices, pain, and hardships, then your efforts will not go to waste."

- Anna Agoncillo

"A good husband makes a good wife."

- John Florio

"We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics."

- Joyce Meyer

"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

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion; it is also remembering to take out the trash."

- Joyce Brothers

"Ocean separates lands, not souls."

- Munia Khan

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps."

- Joe Murray

"A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor."

- Jerry and Eileen Spinelli

"Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits."

- Dee King

"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

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

- James Russell Lowell

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

- Albert Ellis

"A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple."

- Tzipi Livni

"Love is a two-way street constantly under construction."

- Carroll Bryant

"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."

- Phillips Brooks

"Souls tend to go back to who feels like home."

- N.R. Hart

"You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you."

- Mark Boyer

"It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them."

- Anthony Storr

"We cannot really love anyone with whom we never laugh."

- Agnes Repplier

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."

- Andre Breton

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."

- William Arthur Ward

"I’m just a girl. Standing in front of a boy. Asking him to love her."

- Notting Hill

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

- Ben Stein

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."

- Bryant H. McGill

"Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair."

- Khalil Gibran

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

- Charles Schulz

"People are weird. When we find someone with a weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love."

- Dr. Seuss

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."

- Sinclair Lewis

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

- C.G. Jung

"The compatibility of a couple and the quality of a relationship lies in the way they handle their arguments and differences."

- Nishan Panwar

"There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love."

- Shmuley Boteach

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

- James Baldwin

"If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love."

- Bernard Byer

"I love you more than coffee, but please don't make me prove it."

- Elizabeth Evans

"Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

- Albert Camus

"A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

- Denis Waitley

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

- Franka Potente

"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I am telling you it is going to be worth it."

- Art Williams

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

- Woody Harrelson

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

- Winston Churchill

"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings."

- Halle Berry

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

- C.S. Lewis

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

- Wayne Dyer

"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me."

- Humphrey Bogart

"It doesn't matter how long it takes, nothing changes when we're apart."

- S Club 7

"The highest happiness on earth is marriage."

- William Lyon Phelps

"Home will be where the heart is. Never were words so true. My hearts far, far away. Home is too."

- Lisa Kessler

"Happily ever after is not a fairy tale, it’s a choice."

- Fawn Weaver

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

- Nora Ephron

"Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. You come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not."

- Everybody Loves Raymond

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

- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

"You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Epicurus

"Two hearts in love need no words."

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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

- Paul Sweeney

"I hope it won’t scare you away, I wanna have your kids someday. They’d all have dimples on their face like you. And when you’re old or bald or grey, I’m gonna love your wrinkly face. Nobody else could love you like I do."

- Meiko

"Whenever I start feeling sad, because I miss you, I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss."

- Cheryl Ott

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

- Franklin P. Jones

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

- Will Ferrell

"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

"People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love."

- Dr. Seuss

"grow in a jealous heart."

- Leo F. Buscaglia

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

- Donna Roberts

"My wife, Mary, and I have been married for forty-seven years, and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."

- Jack Benny

"Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing."

- Natasha Leggero

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

- Groucho Marx

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

- Will Ferrell

"If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love."

- Miles Davis

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

- Joan Crawford

"Does distance really matter? You love your favorite actor, drool for your favorite singer and awaits patiently for the next art from your favorite artist or writer. Why not the one you love?"

- Jane Morsel

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

- Rita Rudner

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own."

- Willa Cather

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

- E. Joseph Cossman

"Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you."

- Walter Winchell

"Love is being stupid together."

- Paul Valery

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

- Erich Segal

"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

"My husband says I treat him like he's a god; every meal is a burnt offering."

- Rhonda Hansome

"Romantic love is painful."

- will.i.am

"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

- Lily Tomlin

"You’re born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special ‘single’ status, I don’t understand. Life is less stress being single; I have to admit."

- Bipasha Basu

"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

"Love is like a game of chess. Except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there."

- George Burns

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

- Jim Gaffigan

"I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you."

"I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."

"A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future."

"I hope it’s okay if I love you forever."

"Trust is built in small moments which I call ‘sliding door moments’ after the movie Sliding Doors."

"Sometimes, I look at you and wonder how I got to be so damn lucky."

"The reality is that trust is built slowly over time. The basis of trust is really the idea of attunement."

"I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes."

"Let’s be weird and wonderful together."

"If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you."

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

"You’re the peanut butter to my jelly."

"Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again."

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day."