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Valentine’s Day is here (or just around the corner, depending on which day you’re reading this).
And whether you’re celebrating romantic love, your friendship with your best friend, or perhaps your deep and loving relationship with a parent or child, it can be difficult to know what to say.
That’s why in today’s post I want to share 101 of the most romantic, funny, and inspiring Valentine’s Day quotes.
To help you express how you feel deep inside on a card, in a text message, on your Instagram or other social media or in real life on that special day.
I hope you find something here that inspires you and makes you think, but also helps you make it a fun and relaxing party.
Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Giving love is an education in itself.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love is not just something you feel, it is something you do.”
– David Wilkerson
“First and foremost: self-love, and then giving love away.”
– Katy Perry
“Love is not about holding hands and spending time together, but about being there for your loved one even in the cloudiest of skies.”
– Unknown
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscot
“Love knows no barriers. He jumps over obstacles, over fences, penetrates walls to arrive at his destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
“True love is built the old-fashioned way: through hard work.”
– Danny Zijde
“There is no cure for love than to love more.”
–Thoreau
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
–James Baldwin
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and let it come in.”
– Morrie Schwartz
“Love will find its way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
– Lord Byron
“When we are in love, we appear to ourselves very different than before.”
– Blaise Pascal
‘Don’t worry. Continue living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Your job is not to look for love, but only to look for and find all the barriers within yourself that you have erected against it.”
– Rumi
“Love many things, for therein lies true power, and whoever loves much achieves much and can achieve much, and what is done in love is done well.”
–Vincent Van Gogh
“The art of love is largely the art of endurance.”
–Albert Ellis
“If you want to be loved, love and be kind.”
–Benjamin Franklin
Romantic Happy Valentine’s Day Quotes for Him
“I love you to the moon – and back.”
– Sam McBratney
“I love you not only for what you are, but also for what I am when I am with you.”
–Roy Croft
“If I had a flower for every time I think of you, I could walk around my garden forever.”
–Alfred Tennyson
“You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.”
– E. E. Cummings
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Bronte
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I never think about you.”
–Virginia Woolf
“My heart is and will always be yours.”
–Jane Austen
“You are and have always been my dream.”
–Nicholas Sparks
“I consider every day with you a gift.”
– Rip Wheeler
“I saw that you were perfect, and that’s why I loved you. Then I saw that you weren’t perfect, and I loved you even more.”
– Angelita Lim
“Other men said they have seen angels, but I have seen you, and you are enough.”
–George Moore
“You don’t love someone because of his looks, or his clothes, or his nice car, but because he sings a song that only you can hear.”
–Oscar Wilde
‘I knew I loved you before I met you. I’ve been waiting all my life.”
– Wild garden
“Love starts as a feeling, but continuing is a choice. And I notice that I choose you, more and more every day.
– Justin Wetch
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew it.”
– Arrigo Boito
‘Cause you didn’t whisper in my ear, but in my heart. It was not my lips that you kissed, but my soul.”
–Judy Garland
Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes for Friends
“There’s nothing better than a friend, unless it’s a friend with chocolate.”
–Linda Grayson
“A friend is someone who knows everything about you and still loves you.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
– Ann Landers
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little strange. And when we find someone whose strangeness is compatible with ours, we join them and fall into mutually satisfying strangeness – and call it love – true love.
–Robert Fulghum
“They say that a person needs only three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
– Tom Bodett
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
– Beyonce
“Love is being stupid together.”
– Paul Valery
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. The same world.”
–Wayne Dyer
“Sometimes it’s a form of love to just talk to someone you have nothing in common with and still be captivated by their presence.”
– David Byrne
“A lot of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will go with you if the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Love yourself first and everything else will fall into line. You have to really love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Bal
“Love all, trust some, harm none.”
– William Shakespeare
“Love and kindness are never lost. They always make the difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
–Barbara De Angelis
“The best healing therapy is friendship and love.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
– Erich Segal
“The best proof of love is trust.”
– Joyce brothers
Cute, deep and aesthetic love and Valentine’s Day quotes
“Love consists of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“True love stories never have an ending.”
–Richard Bach
“Love makes your soul crawl out of its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“We love because it is the one and only adventure.”
– Nikki Giovanni
“Every time you love, you love as deeply as if it were forever.”
–Audre Lorde
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with your heart.”
– Helen Keller
“Keep love in your heart. Life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
–Oscar Wilde
“Love planted a rose and the world became sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“When you love someone, you love them as they are, not as you would like them to be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Everything is clearer when you are in love.”
– John Lennon
“And suddenly all the love songs were about you.”
– Shea Smith
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live without you.”
– A.A. Milne
“A kiss is a beautiful trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become unnecessary.”
– Ingrid Bergman
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
– Saint Augustine
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Love is like a beautiful flower that I may not touch, but whose fragrance still makes the garden a place of delight.”
– Helen Keller
Funny and inspiring Valentine’s Day quotes
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person who you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
–Rita Rudner
“Remember, your Valentine’s Day card shows that you care enough to send your very best, even if you’re too lazy to say it in your own words.”
– Melanie White
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate every now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles Schulz
“My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.”
– Garry Shandling
“Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
– Jay Leno
“Before you marry someone, let them use a computer with a slow internet connection to see who they really are.”
–Will Ferrell
“Love can change a person like a parent can change a baby – clumsily and often with a lot of mess.”
– Lemony Snicket
“I love you like a fat kid loves pie.”
–Scott Adams
“Love is a lot like back pain: it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.”
–George Burns
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“Love is telling someone that their hair extensions are showing.”
– Natasha Leggero
“The nice thing about Valentine’s Day is that people discover who is single and who they should be jealous of.”
– Faye Morgan
“A man knows he is in love when he loses interest in his car for a few days.”
–Tim Allen
“As a man in a relationship you have a choice: you can be right or you can be happy.”
– Ralphie May
Short and Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes
“Music after my heart, that’s you.”
– Selena Gomez
“I love you bigger than the world and the sky.”
–Marty Klazmer
“I love you to the moon and back.”
– Unknown
“A hundred hearts would not be enough to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth
“You know it’s love when all you want is for that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
–Julia Roberts
“Through the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
–Plato
“Love is our true destiny.”
–Thomas Merton
‘When I look at you, I feel it. I look at you and I’m home.’
– Dory (from the movie Finding Nemo)
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
– Honoré de Balzac
“You stole my heart from day one.”
– Unknown
“I got you, baby.”
– Sonny and Cher
“Love is what you have experienced with someone.”
–James Thurber
“Where there is love, there is life.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is just better when I have you by my side.”
–Anna Davis
‘You are my better half. Really and in unexpected ways.”
–Sarah Kelly
“Never above you. Never under you. Always next to you.”
–Walter Winchell
“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.”
– George Zand
“All you need is love.”
– The Beatles
Do you want more inspiration and timeless tips for your Valentine’s Day? Then check out these love quotes, the short and romantic quotes in this post and the top 35 love quotes for him here.