Ah, Valentine’s Day. While every day is a great day to celebrate love, Valentine’s Day just feels oh-so extra special. It provides the perfect opportunity to show your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, partner, or another loved one just how much you enjoy having them in your life. While you can certainly set the scene for an all-out lovefest with homemade treats for two or swapping heartfelt gifts, Valentine’s Day quotes are just the sentimental touch you need to level up the whole experience.
There are so many ways to weave sweet Valentine’s Day quotes into these lovey-dovey occasions. Create a handmade card and put your calligraphy skills to the test as you showcase a quote that describes your entire relationship. Write a quote on a kitchen chalkboard so your partner will see it first thing in the morning on Valentine’s Day. Write several quotes on sticky notes and leave them in spots where your other half is sure to see them… and feel all those warm fuzzies.
For long-distance loves, tag your sweetie on Instagram while sharing a quote, send a sweet text, or go old-school with a love letter in the mail, punctuated with a quote or two, of course. To tell your special someone how you really feel this Valentine’s Day, look to these 73 quotes shared by wise and wonderful people throughout the ages.
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Taylor Swift
“I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.”
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Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
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Audrey Hepburn
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
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Andre Breton
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
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Loretta Young
“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
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Franklin P. Jones
“Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
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Ingrid Bergman
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
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Voltaire
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
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David Wilkerson
"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
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Reese Witherspoon
“You can always gain by giving love.”
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Maya Angelou
“Love recognizes no barriers.”
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Ann Landers
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
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Albert Einstein
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
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Lao Tzu
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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Alfred Tennyson
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
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Paulo Coelho
“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.”
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Zelda Fitzgerald
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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Zane Grey
"Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply."
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
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Trent Shelton
"Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you."
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George Sand
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
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Jane Austen
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
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Seth Adam Smith
"We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm. Real love is about weathering the terms of life together."
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Anonymous
"If someone cares about you, you won't ever have to wonder how they feel, they'll constantly remind you."
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1 Corinthians 13:7
"Love never gives up."
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Emily Brontë
"Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same." —
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Paulo Coelho
"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning."
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Charles M. Schulz
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
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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."
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Dr. Seuss
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
Alesandra DubinContributing WriterAlesandra is a digital travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Prevention, Insider, Glamour, Shondaland, AFAR, Parents, TODAY and countless other online and print outlets.
Shelby DeeringShelby Deering is a lifestyle writer who specializes in decor, home tours, wellness, travel, vintage, and feel-good stories for national publications.
