There are relationships, then there’s true love. You’re with someone new, and it’s different. Or maybe, you’ve been together for years. Either way, it’s deep, exciting, special. You want to pour your guts out to her. Maybe you have already. If you’re having trouble putting words to your feelings, don’t worry—most people do.
Here are over 100 quotes to help you put your feelings into the right words:
You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching. Love like you’ll never be hurt. Sing like there’s nobody listening. And live like it’s heaven on earth. – William W. Purkey
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life. – Bob Marley
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. – John Green
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. –Pablo Neruda
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. – Neil Gaiman
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -Robert A. Heinlein
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
The most important thing in the world is family and love. – John Wooden
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. – Henry Miller
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. – Og Mandino
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. – Jean Anouilh
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object. – Ram Dass
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. –Euripides
Life is a game and true love is a trophy. – Rufus Wainwright
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in, and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments. –Karen Salmansohn
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply. – Zane Grey
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. – Ingrid Bergman
The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare
I love you more than my own skin. – Frida Kahlo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. –Victor Hugo
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. – William Arthur Ward
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? – Christopher Marlowe
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. –Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticize me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves. – Alain de Botton
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. – Helen Keller
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. – Torquato Tasso
We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it. –John Lennon
Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. – Gilbert Parker
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. – Honore de Balzac
The things that we love tell us what we are. – Thomas Aquinas
I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home. – Dorothy L. Sayers
Love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine
To me, a forever love is a bond that can’t be broken. – Nick Cannon
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. – Daisaku Ikeda
Love and a red rose can’t be hid. – Thomas Holcroft
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. – Lord Byron
True love, to me, is when she’s the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep. – Justin Timberlake
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. – Morihei Ueshiba
The giving of love is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. – Bruce Lee
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. –Mignon McLaughlin
Maybe true love isn’t out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone. – Roxane Gay
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. – George Bernard Shaw
Love is my religion, I could die for it. – John Keats
True love lasts forever. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. – Samuel Lover
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. – Samuel Beckett
Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell
True love bears all, endures all and triumphs! – Dada Vaswani
I think falling in love is always a surprise, right? – Josh Dallas
Love is space and time measured by the heart. – Marcel Proust
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. – Gustave Flaubert
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. – Thomas Mann
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. – George Jean Nathan
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love. – Bob Dylan
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. – Jeanette Winterson
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith
There is no limit to the power of loving. – John Morton
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. – Ken Kesey
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. – Francois Rabelais
When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. – Natalie Clifford Barney
There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table. – Tom Hanks
A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It’s something that marks you. – Elodie Yun
Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Eva Gabor
If you’ve got love you’ve got life, if you can love you can live. – Kim Casali
All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love. – Leo Tolstoy
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. – Leo Christopher
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A. A. Milne
If I know what love is, it is because of you. – Herman Hesse
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company. –Colin Firth
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. – Blaise Pascal
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. – Albert Einstein
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. – Muriel Spark
Love means to commit yourself without guarantee. – Anne Campbell
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. – Jane Austen
True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together. – Ricardo Montalban
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow. – John Lennon
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
True love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach
It’s important for us to latch onto the people that we love. – Connie Stevens
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. – Maya Angelou
Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give. – Kim Casali
