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Here's the thing about romantic love — it's hard to put into words. But fortunately, these inspirational love quotes will make finding new ways to say "I love you" a whole lot easier.

When you fall in love, you want the other person to be happy, and being part of their happiness can inspire you to accomplish some of the most amazing feats you'll ever undertake. Loving and being loved can make you feel more fulfilled than you've ever been. And yet, while true love can get your creative juices flowing, many of us struggle to express exactly what we feel.

Inspirational quotes about love can help explain those butterflies you get in your stomach, that warm fuzzy feeling in your head, and the way your heart skips a million beats in your chest. Share them with your true love, and watch the magic happen.

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100 Inspirational Love Quotes To Say, "I Love You"

For Inspiration

1. Love is blind to imperfections

"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more." — Angelita Lim

2. How love feels

"I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes."

3. Love brings happiness

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." — Victor Hugo

4. What you learn from love

"All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love." — Leo Tolstoy

5. Why love matters

"I'm much more me when I'm with you."

6. Why love hurts

"It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company." — Colin Firth

7. How love colors your world

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

8. Love is giving

"To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything." — T. Tolis

9. Love is unselfish

"In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy." — Theodor Reik

10. All there is to say

"Maybe the only vow we ever need to offer the one we love is this: I will never, not for a sliver of a second, make you feel alone." — Tyler Knott Gregson

11. Love does not judge

"There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'" — Tom Hanks

12. Love is strength

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

13. Love brings joy

"I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

14. Where love lies

"Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi

15. When their happiness means everything

"If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, only then would you realize how special you are to me."

16. When you know you won't have to fight your battles alone

"I can't promise to fix all your problems, but I can promise you won't have to face them all alone."

17. When the universe brought you together

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

18. How love is poetic

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." ― Plato

19. Love makes all the negative thoughts disappear

"His love roared louder than her demons."

20. Love is freedom

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ― Sophocles

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Memorable Love Quotes From Movies and Books

21. There is no greater lesson in life than love.

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” — "Moulin Rouge"

22. How love works

"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." — Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"

23. When love is real

"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"

24. Where love is, God is

"And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God." — Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

25. Love without end

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone." — J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of The Rings"

26. Love means togetherness

When you start a new relationship, it's easy to think about every little detail. But understanding how to stop overthinking, especially when dating someone new, can prevent a breakup.

It was one of my first online dates. We were slogging through the early stages of an awkward conversation over coffee; I confessed that I was new to this process and wasn't very good at it. "If I ever get good at this," the guy replied, "it'll be time to give it up."

It was late autumn. At 37, I found myself single again after the demise of a seven-year relationship, and the possibilities of Internet dating seemed infinite. I was captivated by the idea that I could post a profile of myself for anyone in the world to see, that I could forge a textured relationship with someone before we had even met.

I had never "dated" before. In college, I'd fallen in love with a classmate the first day I arrived on campus and then spent the next four years obsessed with the ideal of that relationship (despite all evidence that "ideal" was all it would ever be). In my twenties, I fell into several short-term relationships with friends and colleagues, but never went on a blind date and never perused the personals, even as an anthropological curiosity. At 30, I met a man through work. Two years later we moved in together. Three years later we had a baby together. One year later we broke up.

During this time, the Internet went from being a glimmer in Al Gore's eye to an ordinary fact of life.

For a few weeks I perused the Nerve.com online personals — back when there were Nerve.com personals — from a voyeuristic distance. I became intrigued by the profile prompts ("Most humbling moment." "Five items you can't live without.") and began to imagine what kind of self-portrait I could craft for an entire world of potential soul mates.

When I came across a man I was attracted to, I decided to create my profile in earnest. I checked off all the little boxes: "never" smoke, "sometimes" drink, "never" use drugs. Interested in a "serious relationship" with a man who "never" smokes, "sometimes" drinks, and "never" uses drugs. I talked about my love of tennis and the streets of Rome; I mentioned my "adorable 2-year-old daughter," whose birth was my "most humbling moment."

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When the time came to upload a photo, I was dismayed by my options. Most of the digital pictures I had of myself had been taken in the beleaguered days following the birth of my daughter, and featured an alarming amount of unkempt hair and unbuttoned blouses.

Recalling the old adage about never getting a second chance to make a first impression, I washed my hair, applied a bit more makeup than usual, and went to the Kmart photo booth, where I sat for 20 minutes looking slyly into the camera in a way that I would never have been able to for an actual photographer. Finally, I bought a flatbed scanner to upload my new photos. ($79 seemed like a small price to pay for finding true love.)

And then I took the plunge. I contacted the man whose profile had attracted me, a great-looking architect who "couldn't live without" his two kids and The New York Times. "Well, here goes," I wrote, making sure he understood how new I was to this. I complimented him on his "flair for syntax" and closed by saying, "If, for whatever reason, I don't hear from you, no hard feelings, and best of luck with all this."

I didn't hear from him.

If we applied the rules of acceptable online personals etiquette to three-dimensional behavior, the world would be a rude and confusing place. Imagine walking up to someone in a bar, or at your local gym, saying hello to them, then having them look you up and down, turn their back on you and start talking to someone else.

Of the 19 men I contacted over the course of the past year, eight of them simply didn't respond to my messages. At first it was hard not to take the rejections personally. But as I gained more experience and the tables began to turn (of the 135 men who contacted me, I simply didn't respond to 90 of them), I came to understand that the reasons for ignoring someone online range from non-attraction to just being too busy to take down an outdated profile.

I didn't disdain any of the men I ignored; I simply didn't feel that elusive two-dimensional spark. And given the choice between sending a polite rejection letter and simply not responding, the latter seemed like the more sensible thing to do.

Over the next few months, I went on seven first dates that went nowhere fast.

I received four "winks." I ignored six men. Four men ignored me. Then, as winter gave way to a glorious spring, I experienced my first sustained epistolary romance. I received a lovely note from a fellow writer. Within nine days we had exchanged 57 emails.

Letters have always been my preferred literary form. As a reader, I've gobbled up numerous collections, from Jack Henry Abbott's letters to Norman Mailer, to The Letters of Kingsley Amis, to the legendary courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. As a writer, some of my best work is nestled within the hundreds of letters I've written over the years to my teachers and friends.

Freed from the constraints of narrative structure, letters are places where we can experiment with our writing styles, make passing cultural observations, and record personal thoughts without regard for a wide readership.

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The sheer volume of the correspondence between Barrett and Browning was inspiring to me when I first signed up for online dating. Over the course of a 20-month courtship, these two poets exchanged 574 letters. (The Victorian penny post was remarkably efficient, creating an effect not unlike modern-day email, with one to three exchanges taking place on a daily basis.) Barrett and Browning corresponded for four months before they ever met.

Their intimate, detailed

The honeymoon phase doesn't last forever, so practice these new relationship tips as your union evolves over time to give it a strong foundation.