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74 Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love—and Give You All the Feels

"Our love is like…" an ocean? The universe? A really juicy hamburger? Avoid cliches and awkward silences with these relationship quotes about love and romance.

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74 Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love—and Give You All The Feels Opener
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Why is love so easy to feel but so hard to express?

“I love you” is always great but sometimes those three little words just aren’t enough to express the true depth of your love. Thankfully there are plenty of love quotes from people who are much smarter, wiser, and funnier than the rest of us. Romantic love quotes, loyalty quotes, love poems, love memes, and other love messages can get your creative juices flowing so you can truly express your love and devotion.

How to use love quotes: There’s a beautiful quote about love for every relationship occasion. Write one on a sticky note on the mirror or in your partner’s car, to brighten your loved one’s day. Text one as a way to let them know you’re thinking about them. Use a love quote to caption on a cute couple pic on Instagram.

Or perhaps you are trying to come up with the perfect swoon-worthy ~something~ to say for a meaningful occasion. You can use these love quotes in wedding vows, writing anniversary or birthday cards, inscribing jewelry, or attached to a gift sent to a long-distance love. The options are endless!

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Carl Jung Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” —Carl Jung

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Justin Wetch Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day.” —Justin Wetch

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Oscar Wilde Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love 2
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“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” —Oscar Wilde

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Agatha Christie Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” —Agatha Christie

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Taylor Swift Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.” —Taylor Swift

RELATED: 15 Signs Your Relationship Is Solid as a Rock

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John Updike Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“We are most alive when we are in love.” —John Updike

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Charles Bukowski Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I want to be with you. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” —Charles Bukowski

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Eva Gabor Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” —Eva Gabor

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Dr. Seuss Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love 2
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“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 in mutual weirdness and call it love.” —Dr. Seuss

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Soulmates are forever

Richard Bach Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” —Richard Bach

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Herman Hesse Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” —Herman Hesse

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Mignon Mclaughlin Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” —Mignon McLaughlin

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Falling in love

Sam Keen Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” —Sam Keen

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Dr. Seuss Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss

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Franklin P. Jones Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love doesn’t make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones

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The Incredibles Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“You are my greatest adventure.” —The Incredibles

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Maya Angelou Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“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

RELATED: 20 Maya Angelou Quotes to Inspire and Uplift You

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Dawson's Creek Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“A soulmate is someone who you carry with you forever. It’s the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would.” —Dawson’s Creek

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Kenny Loggins Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“A soul mate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.” —Kenny Loggins

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Emily Brontë Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Emily Brontë

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Aristotle Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” —Aristotle

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Kim Kardashian Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I think you have different soulmates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.” —Kim Kardashian

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Ann Landers Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“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

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A. A. Milne (2) Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“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

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Long-distance love sparks

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“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” —Benjamin Franklin

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Jane Austen Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” —Jane Austen

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A.a. Milne (1) Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” —A.A. Milne

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Mahatma Gandhi Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” —Mahatma Gandhi

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Virginia Woolf Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” —Virginia Woolf

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Ice T Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.” —Ice-T

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Dee King Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits.” —Dee King

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Rafael Ortiz Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” —Rafael Ortiz

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Margaret Atwood Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I exist in two places: Here and where you are.” —Margaret Atwood

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Doug Fetherling Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” —Doug Fetherling

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Alishah Khan Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“It’s been a year and three months since we’ve kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else.” —Alishah Khan

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Couple goals

Joanne Woodward Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.” —Joanne Woodward

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Russell M. Nelson Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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38. “When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. [In a relationship] learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn’t planned on.” —Russell M. Nelson

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Antoine De Saint Exupéry Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Patrick Rothfuss Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” —Patrick Rothfuss

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Yoko Ono Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” —Yoko Ono

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Shannon L. Alder Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” —Shannon L. Alder

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H. Jackson Brown Jr. Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Julia Roberts Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“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

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Katharine Hepburn Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.” —Katharine Hepburn

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Joyce Brothers Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry the trash out.” —Joyce Brothers

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Joseph B. Wirthlin Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“True love lasts forever.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Henry David Thoreau Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” —Henry David Thoreau

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N.r. Hart Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.” —N.R. Hart

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E. Leventhal Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person.” —E. Leventhal

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Cher Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.” —Cher

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Margaret Mead Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.” —Margaret Mead

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Audrey Hepburn Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn

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Oscar Wilde Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Who, being loved, is poor?” —Oscar Wilde

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Sophocles Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.” —Sophocles

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Benjamin Franklin Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” —Benjamin Franklin

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Lao Tzu Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu

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John Green Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“True love will triumph in the end— which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” —John Green

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Donald Miller Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” —Donald Miller

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Fawn Weaver Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.” —Fawn Weaver

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Oprah Winfrey Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“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

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Funny quotes to help you laugh together

Cameron Esposito Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.” —Cameron Esposito

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Mindy Kaling Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.” —Mindy Kaling

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Michelle Obama Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“One of the keys to a successful marriage is separate bathrooms. When he enters my bathroom sometimes I’m like, ‘Why are you in here?’ And he’s like, ‘I live here. Can I enjoy my bathroom, too?'” —Michelle Obama

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Kristen Bell Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I’d like to publicly thank my husband [Dax Shepard] for changing half the diapers in our house. I hope he changes all of mine one day.” —Kristen Bell

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Stephanie Ortiz Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Husband secretly lowers the thermostat and I secretly turn it back up. We both vehemently deny touching it. Marriage is fun.” —Stephanie Ortiz

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Rita Rudner (1) Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” —Rita Rudner

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Elizabeth Taylor Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed, too—for being married so many times.” —Elizabeth Taylor

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Charles M. Schulz Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” —Charles M. Schulz

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Will Ferrell Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” —Will Ferrell

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Erma Bombeck Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” —Erma Bombeck

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Unknown Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I wanted to send you something sexy, but the mailman told me to get out of the mailbox.” —unknown

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Rita Rudner Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” —Rita Rudner

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Lucille Ball Relationship Quotes That Celebrate Love
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“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.” —Lucille Ball

Sometimes, our relationships end—and we need inspirational words to help us get through it and move on. Here are some broken heart quotes that help you feel whole again.

Charlotte Hilton Andersen
Charlotte is an award-winning journalist who covers etiquette, relationships, psychology, health and lifestyle. She has written more than 50 etiquette stories for Reader’s Digest, spearheading the site’s popular Polite Habits and Best Messages series. With a knack for capturing the essence of an interview subject, she also specializes in human-interest and “as told to” stories. In addition to Reader’s Digest and The Healthy, her work has been published in Shape, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, O Magazine, Fitness, Redbook, Seventeen, What to Expect When You're Expecting and more.