Valentine's Day Quotes

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." -Shakespeare

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." -Unknown

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without." -Unknown

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Saint-Exupery

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

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." -Henry Ward Beecher

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." -La Rochefoucauld

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." -St. Augustine

"To love another person is to see the face of God." -Les Miserables

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

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time." -Lawrence Durrell

“Very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." -Stendhal

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

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." -Dr. Karl Menninger

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." -William M. Thackeray

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with..." -Unknown

"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away." -Alicia Barnhart

"Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived." -Unknown

"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever." -Unknown

"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest." -Unknown

"The Eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!" -Margaret Atwood

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart." -Unknown

"Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself wanting to be lost again." -Unknown

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

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

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

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

"Love conquers all." ...Virgil

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

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

"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 irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ...Robert Frost

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and 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

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go" ...Herman Hesse