60 Valentine’s Day Quotes That Are Sure to Make Their Heart Flutter

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When you feel strongly about someone, it can be difficult to find the right words to say, especially on the most romantic holiday of the year. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the sweetest and most sentimental Valentine’s Day quotes for every relationship or milestone. Whether you want to say something special to a spouse you’ve been married to for years, an old friend, or your new flame, there are so many different ways to express yourself. Thankfully, we’ve made things easy for you by compiling our favorite Valentine’s Day quotes.

Scroll through and you’ll find charming thoughts from some of your favorite stars including Jennifer Lopez, Princess Diana, and many more. Of course, there are also memorable moments about love and romance from none other than William Shakespeare, Nicholas Sparks, and other romantics, so we suggest having some tissues handy before you dive in. Once you figure out the right message, write one or several of the following quotes in a card and make sure to choose a thoughtful gift to go along with it. We guarantee you’ll be making their Valentine’s day in no time. And who knows? Maybe this will inspire you to come up with a heartfelt message of your own.

David Viscott

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

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Mother Teresa

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“When love is not madness it is love.”

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Henry Miller

“The only thing we never get enough of is love, and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”

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Nat King Cole

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.”

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Victor Hugo

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

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Dr. Seuss

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because your reality is finally better than your dreams.”

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Oscar Wilde

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

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Maya Angelou

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

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Paulo Coelho

“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.”

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Eva Gabor

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

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Jodi Picoult

“You don't love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

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Lucille Ball

“You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

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Vincent van Gogh

“The way to know life is to love many things.”

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Peter Ustinov

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

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Jane Austen

“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

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Olaf, Frozen

“Some people are worth melting for.”

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Elinor Glyn

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“There is no remedy for love, but to love more.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I don’t want to live, I want to love first and live intentionally.”

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Madonna

"To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return."

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Eartha Kitt

“I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.”

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Albert Einstein

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

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E. E. Cummings

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”

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Frida Kahlo

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

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Lady Gaga

“At the end of the day, you won’t be happy until you love yourself.”

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Katharine Hepburn

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.”

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Barack Obama

“…if you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens.”

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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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Audrey Hepburn

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

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Audre Lorde

“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”

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Frank Sinatra

“A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”

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Cher

“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.”

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John Lennon

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

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János Arany

“In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.”

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Marilyn Monroe

“The real love is the man who can thrill you just by kissing your head or smiling into your eyes or just by staring into space.”

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Bob Marley

“Only once in your life I truly believe you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”

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Saint Augustine

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

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Princess Diana

“I don’t go by the rule book...I lead from the heart, not the head.”

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Pablo Picasso

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

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David Wilkerson

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”

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Plato

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

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Gloria Steinem

“Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.”

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Sarah Dessen

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

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Billy Crystal

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

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Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember

“Love is like the wind; you can't see it but you can feel it.”

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Reese Witherspoon

“There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.”

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Drew Barrymore

“Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.”

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Cecelia Ahern

“You don’t marry someone you can live with; you marry the person you cannot live without.”

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Joan Didion

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

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Tom Hanks

“There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.’”

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John Krasinski

“When you’re lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can’t get better than that.”

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Katharine Lee Bates

“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”

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Jane Fonda

“The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my fifties, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.”

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Ed Sheeran

“All that you are is all that I’ll ever need.”

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Alfred Tennyson

“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

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William Shakespeare

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore, is winged Cupid painted blind.”

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Robert Frost

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given.”

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Max Muller

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”

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