50 Quotes That Remind Us How Beautiful True Love Can Be

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

— Sam Keen, amazon.com

“You're a rose, be with someone who isn't afraid of your thorns.”

— R.H. Sin, rhsin.tumblr.com

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”

— Nancy Garden, amazon.com

“Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.”

— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com

“I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”

— E. E Cummings, amazon.com

“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”

— Homer, amazon.com

“You're everything that I want and ask for, you're all that I'd dreamed.”

— Billy Corgan, amazon.com

“I’m not sure about what the future holds for me but I’m sure I want you in it.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“Deep. Real. Pure. Passionate. What real love should be.”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“Every breath that is in your lungs is a tiny little gift to me.”

— The White Stripes, amazon.com

“Because I love you truly, because you love me, too. My very greatest happiness is sharing life with you.”

— Minna Thomas Antrim, amazon.com

“Mutual love, the crown of bliss.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

“You turn my life into something light, amazing, rainbowed— you put a glint of happiness on everything.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

— Dr. Seuss, iheartintelligence.com

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide, amazon.com

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this...”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— Shakespeare, amazon.com

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, amazon.com

“'You love me. Real or not real?' I tell him, 'Real.'”

— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com

“I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu, philosiblog.com

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”

— Francine Rivers, amazon.com