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16 Favorite Love Quotes for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is an occasion to celebrate love in its many forms—divine, romantic, platonic, familial. We hope these inspiring quotes bring you warmth and joy in the season of love.

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Guideposts: A light glows from deep within a snow-covered forest

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

—Morrie Schwartz, sociology professor and author

Guideposts: A close-up of a young woman playing violin

Love is a friendship set to music.

—Joseph Campbell, author

Guideposts: Two mittened hands make a heart shape, with the sun on the horizon shining through

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, poet

Guideposts: A puppy surprises a kitten with an affectionate slurp

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, actress

Guideposts: Beams of sunlight peek over snow-covered mountain peaks

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

—Plato, philosopher and mathematician

Guideposts: Two hands enfold a coffee cup with a heart shape in the foam

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

—Helen Keller, author

Guideposts: Mittened hands hold a snowball in the shape of a heart

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

—Oscar Wilde, author

Guideposts: Two flowering trees in an open field, under a deep blue sky

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

—Khalil Gibran, artist, poet and writer

Guideposts: A puppy cuddles with a young woman

If you would be loved, love, and be lovable.

—Benjamin Franklin, author, inventor and statesman

Guideposts: A single red rose against a field of green

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor, author and civil rights activist

Guideposts: An older couple clasps hands while seated in beach chairs at the seashore

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

—Elbert Hubbard, author and philosopher

Guideposts: An infant's hand rests upon the palm of a senior man's hand

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

—Andre Breton, author and poet

Guideposts: A grandmother holds her granddaughter close in a hammock

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

—David Wilkerson, pastor and author

Guideposts: Two small dogs snuggle under a throw, with just their snouts sticking out

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, painter

Guideposts: A woman gazes up at multicolored balloons floating in the air

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

—Wayne Dyer, author and speaker

Guideposts: A young couple sits side by side on a park bench

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

—Ann Landers, advice columnist and author

Photograph courtesy Robert Seale

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