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50 Quotes About Love That Will Touch Your Heart

I Love You

"Ain't nothing like the real thing." 

-Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell

If you are in love like I am, you want to shout it from the mountain tops, share your good fortune with others, but most importantly, say it to the one you love.

Barb is the love of my life. A phrase that's been said repeatedly by so many others. She is my best friend and soulmate.

Read: 30 Signs You've Found Your Soulmate

I have loved her and only her for forty years. Our love is magical, wondrous, and passionate. I am in love with our love story but sometimes it seems the words "I Love You", though said every day, don't do my feelings justice.

Every love story is different, built on feelings and events that shape the love you share. If you are like me, always searching for ways to express your love, sometimes finding a song or a quote can capture what's in your heart in a new way.

This list is meant to help you grow your love by finding new ways to express it or simply reminding you to protect your love at all costs. From funny to inspiring to romantic, read on to find the ones that fit your story.

50 Quotes About Love That Will Touch Your Heart

"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." 

-William Goldman

"I love that you are my person and I am yours, that whatever door we come to, we will open it together."

-A.R. Asher

"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."

-William Blake

"Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be."

-Robert Browning

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

-Jules Renard

"I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees, but to be quite upfront and completely truthful you make my body forget it has knees at all."

-Tyler Knott Gregson

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

-William Makepeace Thackeray

"The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes."

-John Mark Green

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

-Edgar Allan Poe

"There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms."

-Lisa Kleypas

"My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul."

-Boris Kodjoe

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride."

-Pablo Neruda

"You feel more like home to me than any place I've ever been."

-Angela N. Blount

"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."

-Valerie Lombardo

"8 days a week, I love you."

-The Beatles

"For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."

-Rosemonde Gerard

"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent."

-Samuel Lover

"My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul."

-A.C. Van Cherub

"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

"Chemistry is you touching my arm and setting fire to my mind."

-Nayyirah Waheed

"Oh, if all I got is your hand in my hand, baby I could die a happy man."

-Thomas Rhett

"I love you-I am at rest with you-I have come home."

-Dorothy L. Sayers

"I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow."

-Leo Christopher

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

"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

"Your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky with burning love."

-Elvis Presley         (I had to get in Elvis for my Mom)

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

-Paulo Coelho

"Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you."

-Ranata Suzuki

"We lie in each other's arms, eyes shut and fingers open, and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire."

-Marge Piercy

"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."

-Sarah Bernhardt

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days--three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

-John Keats

"You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had."

-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

"If I ever were to lose you, I'd surely lose myself."

-Pearl Jam

"My heart is and always will be yours."

-Jane Austen

"I would be lying if I said that I could live this life without you. Even though I don't tell you all the time, you had my heart a long, long time ago."

-Brett Young

"Because of you, I can feel myself slowly, but surely, becoming the me I have always dreamed of being."

-Tyler Knott Gregson

"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."

-Toni Morrison

"All that you are is all that I'll ever need."

-Ed Sheeran

"You're my heart, you're my soul. You're my stone inspiration."

-Commodores

"You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to Earth together, to see if we know what we were taught."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." 

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

This one I saved for you, Barb, my love:

"I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all."

-Laurell K. Hamilton

I love you, Barb. Forever be my always.

Final Thoughts on Love

Loving someone else deeply involves feelings that are sometimes hard to express. Feeling that love in return is otherworldly. Love makes us believers and achievers. It keeps us going when all the signs say we should stop.

Don't let that feeling go unshared. No risk, no reward. True love should be expressed, giving it the chance to change us into a better person.

Remember that there are many ways to express your love.

Read: 18 Ways to Say I Love You

May the quotes above inspire you to express yourself to that special someone. Love makes life wonderful and gives it purpose.

Now go live your best life,

Dan