1. Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

- Gillian Anderson

2. You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

- Henny Youngman

3. Would I rather be feared or loved? Umm… easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

- Michael Scott, The Office

4. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford

5. A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

6. I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

- Jane Austen

7. The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love.

- Sophie Monroe

8. You know how people say, “you can’t live without love”? Well, oxygen is even more important.

- Dr. Gregory Houser

9. Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

10. My soul will find yours.

- Jude Deveraux

11. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

- Randy Pausch

12. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

- Socrates

13. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

- Kahlil Gibran

14. The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

- Pandora Poikilos

15. Love doesn’t drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

- Helen Gurley Brown

16. There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

- Shmuley Boteach

17. Just because I’m not forever by your side doesn’t mean that’s not precisely where I want to be.

- Stephanie Laurens

18. Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart.

- Munia Khan

19. My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all…All my heart has ever wanted is you.

- Stephanie Laurens

20. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

- William Shakespeare

21. A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

- Dave Matthews Band

22. Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.

- George Burns

23. Remember, your Valentine’s card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you’re too lazy to put it in your own words.

- Melanie White

24. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

- Tim McGraw

25. I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

- L. Frank Baum

26. If you text ‘I love you’ to a person and the person writes back an emoji – no matter what that emoji, they don’t love you back.

- Chelsea Peretti

27. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

- Victor Hugo

28. I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

- Brene Brown

29. There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

- Melanie Griffith

30. They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.

- Nicholas Sparks

31. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

- Oscar Wilde

32. He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

- Lauren Oliver

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

- Helen Keller

34. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

- Ernest Hemingway

35. I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

- Woody Allen

36. Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

- Nicholas Sparks

37. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

38. I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you.

- Lisa Kleypas

39. If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

- Sue Monk Kidd

40. Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

- Tessa Dare

41. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

- Pearl Bailey

42. Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

- Albert Einstein

43. Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

- Charles Dickens

44. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

- Criss Jami

45. If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.

- Oprah Winfrey

46. Between lovers, a little confession is a dangerous thing.

- Helen Rowland

47. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

- Lily Tomlin

48. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

- H. L. Mencken

49. Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.

- Jim Gaffigan

50. An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

- Agatha Christie

51. You’re never alone on Valentine’s Day if you’re near a lake and have bread.

- Mike Primavera

52. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

- Jess C. Scott

53. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

- Stephanie Perkins

54. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung

55. You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

- Richelle Mead

56. Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

- Will Ferrell

57. You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

- Julie de Lespinasse