The ancient Romans celebrated the 14th of February as the day of Lupercalia which Pope Galacios replaced with Saint Valentine’s Day. Around the 14th century this holiday became associated with the celebration of love, an occasion where couples exchanged gifts. Today Valentine’s Day is celebrated worldwide. Love has had an enduring influence on human creativity and it has inspired ancient philosophers, poets and authors to articulate their perspectives on love- a fundamental human experience that is profound and complex.
Here is a list of 33 of the most beautiful quotes about love to celebrate this Valentine’s Day.
valentine’s Day Quotes
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
“Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.” -Robert Browning
“I don’t go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head.” — Princess Diana
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” — Mother Teresap
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” — Charles Dickens
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford
“Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.” — John Lennon
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” — Peter Ustinov
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle
“Love is like the fire, if you don’t keep adding fuel to it, it will slowly go out.” — William Shakespeare
“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks
“Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” — Unknow
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” — Nicholas Sparks
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” — Victor Hugo
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
“I am yours; don’t give myself back to me.” — Rumi
“My heart to you is given, oh do give yours to me; We’ll lock them up together, and throw away the key.” — Frederick Saunders
“We are most alive when we are in love.” — John Updike
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