You can celebrate love all 365 days of the year, but it’s always nice to do a little something extra to commemorate your partner on Valentine’s Day. Of course, you can buy chocolates, flowers and gifts — but few things are more romantic than a handwritten note expressing just how much that special someone means to you. If you’re not very good with words or need some inspiration for your Valentine’s Day message, look no further than these Valentine’s Day quotes from a few of your favorite famous faces.
While you’ll definitely find the perfect quote for your husband or wife here (we’ve got tons of quotes about love), you’ll also see some sayings that will work for your friends (especially if you’re throwing a Galentine’s Day party) or any member of your family. And if want to rejoice in your singleness, there are a few quotes that will help you channel some self-love.
All that’s left to do is pick out the perfect Valentine’s Day card and put pen to paper.
Andre Breton
“All my life, my heart has yeared for a thing I cannot name.”
Barack Obama
“If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens.”
C.S. Lewis
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
Charles M. Schulz
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and the doesn’t hurt.”
Elaine Davis
“Loved you yesterday, love your still, always have, always will.”
Elvis Presley
“Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can’t help failling in love with you.”
John Lennon
“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”
Katharine Lee Bates
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
Lenny Bruce
“There are never enough I Love You’s.”
Leo Tolstoy
“When you love someone, you love the whole person as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
Maya Angelou
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
Melissa Etheridge
“Love is never wrong.”
Mother Teresa
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
Oscar Wilde
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
Trent Shelton
“Your flaws are perfect for the heart that’s meant to love you.”
Unknown
“Love is so much more than just another four letter word.”
Winnie the Pooh
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
David Viscott
To love and be loved is to the feel the sun from both sides.
Maya Angelou
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Emily Bronte, “Wuthering Heights”
Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Hermann Hesse
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Rumi
Love is the whole thing. We are only the pieces.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Pablo Picasso
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love is something eternal… The aspect may change but not the essence.
A.A. Milne
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Albert Einstein
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Alfred Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
Ann Landers
Love is friendship that has caught fire.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
Dr. Seuss
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Audre Lorde
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
Audrey Hepburn
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Arthur Conan Doyle
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
Barbara De Angelis
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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Bil Keane
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
Albert Camus
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Madonna
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Blaise Pascal
The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing.
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Beth Pearson, “This Is Us”
The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you.
George Sand
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Judy Garland
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Charles M. Schulz
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Jay Leno
Today is Valentine’s Day — or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
Source: msn.com