20 Quotes On Love That Are Off The Beaten Path

Love quotes exist, and have stood the test of time for reason, they evoke something in us, and they express something that we think, feel, and know to be true, but struggle to say ourselves.
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When I think of love quotes, I think of Kermit the Frog singing about love songs, my flipping through the racks of love cards trying to figure out what profound I was going to say for my wedding vows, or basically turn to them when I cannot express what I am feeling, but they are able to hit it dead on. Love quotes exist, and have stood the test of time for reason, they evoke something in us, and they express something that we think, feel, and know to be true, but struggle to say ourselves. Let me help you by providing you with the ultimate list of love quotes!

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

2. My husband said this when he proposed, so a personal favorite. "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

3. "Because I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you."
-- (Unknown)

4. "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, True Love

5. "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That's what I hope to give you forever."
-- The Notebook

6. "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

7. "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

8. "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."
-- H. L. Mencken

9. "If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."
― Marilyn Monroe

10. "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."
-- Paul McCartney

11. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
12. "Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive."
-- (Unknown)

13. "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

14. "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

15. "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

16. "There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless."
-- Leo Christopher

17. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
― Friedrich Nietzsche

18. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

19. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-- Lao-Tzu

20. "The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
― Marilyn Monroe

I hope this list leaves feeling inspired, loving, and like sharing some of these thoughts with the person that you love. They will no doubt appreciate the sentiment, and that you were willing and brave enough to express it with them. Share the love!

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