Relationships and Marriage: 25 Favorite Love Quotes

Valentine’s Day! What a great way to kick off my new series on relationships and marriage. Valentine’s Day has long been celebrated as a day of romance and love. No one knows for certain the day’s exact origin. Many accounts have it shrouded in both legend and history. No matter it’s exact origin, today it has come to be recognized as one of America’s favorite times to celebrate love. Whether you are in a relationship, hope to be in a relationship someday or are married, I hope you find these quotes inspirational.

These are some of my all time favorite quotes on love:

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~Aristotle

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. ~Thomas Merton

I know of only one duty and that is to love. ~ Albert Camus

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Bronte

Love is my religion – I could die for it. ~John Keats

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings. ~Plato

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. ~Lao Tzu

There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~Henry David Thoreau

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Picasso

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself. ~Ghandi

What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ~George Eliot

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~Victor Hugo

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. ~Og Mandino

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller

Love is friendship set to music. ~Joseph Campbell

When I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew. ~Shakespeare

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ~Charles Dickens

There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~Henry David Thoreau

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ~Jesus

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. ~Benjamin Franklin

’Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~Paul of Tarsus