Powerful phrases and short sayings you can share with the special person in your life.
By Cameron Jenkins and Larry Stansbury
Romantic love can be expressed in so many ways. It can look like letting your partner have the last slice of pizza, throwing in a load of laundry before they get home from work, cooking them a romantic dinner or sitting with them while they binge-watch their favorite show. No matter how you choose to say “I love you” based on your personal love language or theirs, sometimes the best way to get the message across is to simply put it into words.
Now, even the most romantic people can stumble when it comes to expressing their feelings verbally, but that’s where our love quotes come in. Whether you’re hoping to draw inspiration in order to write that special someone a love poem or you want to share some sentimental words with your wife (or girlfriend) we have just the phrases and musings that will make their hearts melt. We also included feel-good expressions for him that will be sure to tug at the heartstrings of the lucky man in your life.
Some of these quotes can serve as an inspirational message and spark a reminder to always practice self-love first.
And since true love doesn’t just exist between couples or romantic partnerships, as you read these quotes, if you are reminded of a friend or family member, be sure to share it with them.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
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Helen Keller
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
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Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Elaine Davis
Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.
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bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
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Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Quincy, Love and Basketball
All’s fair in love and basketball.
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Edgar Allen Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Loretta Young
Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
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Justice, Poetic Justice
Love is a juice with many tastes. Some bitter, others sweet. A wine which has few vineyards.
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bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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Saint Ignatius
Love is shown more in deeds than in words.
Cameron Jenkins
Staff Writer
Cameron (she/her) is a staff writer for Good Housekeeping, where she covers everything from holidays to food. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she received a B.A. in magazine journalism. In her spare-time she can be found scrolling TikTok for the latest cleaning hacks and restaurant openings, binge-watching seasons of Project Runway or online shopping.
Larry Stansbury
Contributing Writer
Larry Stansbury is a writer whose work has appeared in POPSUGAR, Sports Illustrated, Her Campus, Distractify and more. He covers a wide range of topics, including entertainment, lifestyle and sports. Larry graduated with a B.A. in writing and rhetoric from Syracuse University in 2018. When he’s not writing, he is either working out, eating carbs or dancing to the next Little Mix song.
bell hooks challenges what we've so often been told about love, stating, “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust.” The author points to the varying dimensions of love, which pivots from the tendency to believe that love is simply a strong affection.
"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." "We are most alive when we are in love." "The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my eyes and all is born again. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
According to a team of scientists led by Dr. Helen Fisher at Rutgers, romantic love can be broken down into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment. Each category is characterized by its own set of hormones stemming from the brain (Table 1).
Other words that could be considered stronger or deeper than "love" include "adoration," "infatuation," "devotion," "obsession," and "fervor." Each of these words carries its own unique connotations and can be used to express a deep and intense feeling of affection or attachment towards someone or something.
''And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be. ...
''But for now, let me say without hope or agenda to me, you are perfect, and my wasted heart will love you...'' Love Actually - 8 per cent of the vote.
"You are the best thing that ever happened to me." "I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I'm with you." "If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I would use my last breath to tell you I love you." "Your love is the best gift I could ever hope to receive."
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