Valentine’s Day is here (or it’s just around the corner depending on what day you read this).
And no matter if you’re celebrating romantic love, your friendship with your best friend or maybe your deep and loving relationship with a parent or a child it can be tricky to know what to say.
So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most romantic, funny and inspirational Valentine’s Day quotes.
To help you express how you deep down feel on a card, in a text message, on your Instagram or other social media or in real life on that special day.
I hope you’ll find something here that’ll inspire you and make you think but also help you to make this a fun and relaxing celebration.
Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
– David Wilkerson
“First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.”
– Katy Perry
“Love is not about holding hands and spending time with each other, but it is about being there for your loved one, even in the cloudiest of all skies.”
– Unknown
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscot
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
– Maya Angelou
“Real love is built the old-fashioned way – through hard work.”
– Danny Silk
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Thoreau
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
– James Baldwin
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
– Morrie Schwartz
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
– Lord Byron
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
– Rumi
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
– Albert Ellis
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Romantic Happy Valentine’s Day Quotes for Him
“I love you right up to the moon — and back.”
– Sam McBratney
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
– Roy Croft
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Tennyson
“You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.”
– E. E. Cummings
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
– Emily Brontë
“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
– Leo Christopher
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.”
– Virginia Woolf
“My heart is and always will be yours.”
– Jane Austen
“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“I look at every day with you as a gift.”
– Rip Wheeler
“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
“Other men said they have seen angels, but I have seen thee, and thou art enough.”
– George Moore
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I knew I loved you before I met you. I have been waiting all my life.”
– Savage Garden
“Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day.”
– Justin Wetch
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
– Arrigo Boito
“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
Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes for Friends
“There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
– Linda Grayson
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
– Euripides
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
– Ann Landers
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
– Robert Fulghum
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
– Tom Bodett
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
– Beyoncé
“Love is being stupid together.”
– Paul Valery
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
– David Byrne
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
– Barbara De Angelis
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
– Erich Segal
“The best proof of love is trust.”
– Joyce Brothers
Cute, Deep and Aesthetic Love & Valentine’s Day Quotes
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle
“True love stories never have endings.”
– Richard Bach
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
– Nikki Giovanni
“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
– Audre Lorde
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
– Helen Keller
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.”
– Katharine Lee Bates
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”
– John Lennon
“And suddenly all the love songs were about you.”
– Shea Smith
“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
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
– Ingrid Bergman
“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
– Saint Augustine
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
– Blaise Pascal
“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
Funny & Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
– Rita Rudner
“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
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles Schulz
“My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.”
– Garry Shandling
“Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
– Jay Leno
“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
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby – awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
– Lemony Snicket
“I love you like a fat kid loves cake.”
– Scott Adams
“Love is a lot like a backache, it doesn’t show up on x-rays, but you know it’s there.”
– George Burns
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
– Rodney Dangerfield
“Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing.”
– Natasha Leggero
“The thing about Valentine’s day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of.”
– Faye Morgan
“A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days.”
– Tim Allen
“As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.”
– Ralphie May
Short and Inspirational Valentine’s Day Quotes
“Music to my heart, that’s what you are.”
– Selena Gomez
“I love you bigger than the world and sky.”
– Marty Klazmer
“I love you to the moon and back.”
– Unknown
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth
“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
– Julia Roberts
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
– Plato
“Love is our true destiny.”
– Thomas Merton
“When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you and I’m home.”
– Dory (from the movie Finding Nemo)
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
– Honore de Balzac
“You stole my heart from day one.”
– Unknown
“I got you babe.”
– Sonny and Cher
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
– James Thurber
“Where there is love there is life.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is just plain better when I have you by my side.”
– Anna Davis
“You are my better half. Truly and in unexpected ways.”
– Sarah Kelly
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.”
– Walter Winchell
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
– George Sand
“All you need is love.”
– The Beatles
Want more inspiration and timeless tips for your Valentine’s Day? Then have a look at these love quotes, the short and romantic quotes in this post and the top 35 love quotes for him here.