150 Happy Valentine’s Day Quotes to Share with Your Loved Ones

Valentine’s Day is the perfect occasion to express your love and gratitude to the special people in your life. Whether it’s for your significant other, a close friend, or a family member, a heartfelt quote can perfectly capture the emotions you want to share. Here are 150 quotes, grouped into sets of ten, to help you celebrate love in all its beautiful forms.

Group 1: Romantic Love

1. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
2. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
3. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott
4. “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse
5. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
6. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
7. “I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim
8. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
9. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
10. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou

Group 2: Friendship and Platonic Love

11. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
12. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
13. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis
14. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia
15. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
16. “Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.” – Barbara De Angelis
17. “True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” – Nicole Richie
18. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson
19. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
20. “To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss

Group 3: Self-Love and Empowerment

“Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.” – Unknown

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown

“Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” – Lucille Ball

“You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle

“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

Group 4: Celebrating Love in Everyday Life

31. “Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.” – Unknown
32. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe
33. “True love stories never have endings.” – Richard Bach
34. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones
35. “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.” – Unknown
36. “The best thing about me is you.” – Shannon Crown
37. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.” – Paulo Coelho
38. “I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
39. “In your smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars.” – Beth Revis
40. “Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire

Group 5: Poetic and Timeless Love Quotes

41. “Love is the flower; you’ve got to let it grow.” – John Lennon
42. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” – T. Tolis
43. “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland
44. “I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart).” – E.E. Cummings
45. “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman
46. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen
47. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
48. “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
49. “A heart full of love is never heavy.” – Unknown
50. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

Group 6: Family Love and Bonds

51. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
52. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
53. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
54. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home.” – Mother Teresa
55. “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
56. “Having someone to love is family. Having somewhere to go is home. Having both is a blessing.” – Unknown
57. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” – Albert Einstein
58. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Unknown
59. “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers
60. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach

Group 7: Love and Marriage

61. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
62. “Love is not something you look for. Love is something you become.” – Loretta Young
63. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
64. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meurer
65. “Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.” – Sophia Bush
66. “Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone. It has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
67. “You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.” – Unknown
68. “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
69. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
70. “A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do.” – Barbara De Angelis

Group 8: Love and Adventure

71. “Life is an adventure, and love is what makes it worth the journey.” – Unknown
72. “We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutual weirdness and call it love.” – Dr. Seuss
73. “Love is meant to be an adventure.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
74. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A.A. Milne
75. “Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” – Osho
76. “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” – Jorge Luis Borges
77. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
78. “I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
79. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.” – Unknown
80. “You’re my favorite place to go when my mind searches for peace.” – Unknown

Group 9: Inspirational Love Quotes

81. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” – Oscar Wilde
82. “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” – Karl A. Menninger
83. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
84. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde
85. “To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.” – François Mauriac
86. “Love is like the wind; you can’t see it, but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
87. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez
88. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine
89. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell
90. “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

Group 10: Timeless Classic Love Quotes

91. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë
92. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” – Oscar Wilde
93. “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
94. “When love is not madness, it is not love.” – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
95. “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
96. “There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.” – George Sand
97. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson
98. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
99. “When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
100. “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

Group 11: Love in Hard Times

101. “Love is not about how much you say ‘I love you,’ but how much you prove that it’s true.” – Unknown
102. “Love doesn’t give up, it doesn’t lose faith, it’s always hopeful, and it endures through every circumstance.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7
103. “True love isn’t found; it’s built.” – Unknown
104. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks
105. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
106. “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young
107. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford (applicable to love’s perseverance)
108. “A strong relationship requires choosing to love each other, even in those moments when you struggle to like each other.” – Unknown
109. “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” – David Wilkerson
110. “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Group 12: Playful and Sweet Love Quotes

111. “You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings
112. “I love you more than coffee, but please don’t make me prove it.” – Elizabeth Evans
113. “I like you very much, just as you are.” – Bridget Jones
114. “You stole my heart, but I’ll let you keep it.” – Unknown
115. “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.” – 50 Cent
116. “Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz
117. “I’m much more me when I’m with you.” – Unknown
118. “I think you’re lacking vitamin me.” – Unknown
119. “I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” – Rosemonde Gérard
120. “Love is the answer, and you know that for sure.” – John Lennon

Group 13: Love Across Distance

121. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
122. “Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” – Dee King
123. “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” – Tom McNeal
124. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” – Edward Thomas
125. “If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love.” – Bernard Byer
126. “I exist in two places, here and where you are.” – Margaret Atwood
127. “Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.” – Colley Cibber
128. “Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart, for love doesn’t count the miles; it’s measured by the heart.” – Unknown
129. “The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget you.” – Nicholas Sparks
130. “Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach

Group 14: Funny Love Quotes

131. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
132. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein
133. “Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman
134. “I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?” – Jean Illsley Clarke
135. “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis
136. “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell
137. “Love is being stupid together.” – Paul Valéry
138. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck
139. “Love is a lot like a backache: it doesn’t show up on X-rays, but you know it’s there.” – George Burns
140. “The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.” – Gore Vidal

Group 15: Universal and Philosophical Love Quotes

141. “Love is the only gold.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
142. “Where there is love, there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
143. “Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.” – Tom Wolfe
144. “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible—it cannot be seen or measured—yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession ever could.” – Barbara De Angelis
145. “Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
146. “Love is a better teacher than duty.” – Albert Einstein
147. “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
148. “Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
149. “Do not seek perfection in a partner. Seek love and understanding instead.” – Unknown
150. “In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.” – Janos Arany

Wrapping Up

With these 150 heartwarming quotes, you have a treasury of words to express your love for anyone who holds a special place in your heart. Let the power of these heartfelt words make this Valentine’s Day a truly unforgettable celebration of love.