Seven years ago, I created a homemade book for my wife with all these quotes about Love from our favorite TV Shows and movies and books and then I added to it great quotes about love from history or just great quotes about love from anyone. For the past six years, I’ve shared a few from the book around the holidays.
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January 25
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
February 12
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. Forster, A Room With A View
March 29
Time is
Too slow for those who wait
Too swift for those who fear
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke, Music And Other Poems
April 22
If anything happened to you, I’d be so destroyed they’d have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.
Janet Evanovich, Fearless Fourteen
May 16
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
Katherine Hepburn, Me: Stories Of My Life
June 17
Whenever you are confronted with an Opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
July 11
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
August 10
You don’t marry the person you can live with…
You marry the person you can’t live without.
Anonymous
September 25
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
Charles Dickens
October 28
Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.
Vertigo
November 9
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan, Contact
December 7
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Roy Croft
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John McGuire is the writer of the sci-fi novel: The Echo Effect.
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