Here's the thing about love: it's hard to put into words. Luckily, we found 100 of the best, most inspiring love quotes and phrases to make finding new and creative ways to say, "I love you" and let your partner know how you truly feel a whole lot easier.

Feeling love brings up all kinds of additional emotions that run the gamut from agony to ecstasy.

Loving someone can inspire you to accomplish some of the craziest and most amazing feats you'll ever undertake.

Being in love can make you feel happier than you've ever been, sadder than you've ever been, and even angrier than you've ever been.

It can elate you and deflate you at almost at the exact same time.

However, while most people can recognize the sensations they associate most closely with love fairly easily, finding just the right words to express those feelings is a far more difficult order.

People have searched for centuries to find the right ways to say, "I love you" for the first (or the billionth) time in order to try explaining those butterflies you get in your stomach, that warm fuzzy feeling in your head and that heart skipping a million beats in your chest.

But one thing we do know is that, whether you've love and won or loved and lost, when love is real, it's always worth it.

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And while there are plenty of ways to express your love through body language and nonverbal communication, finding the perfect love quote that sums up exactly what you're thinking and feeling can be pretty darn amazing.

Luckily, some of the world's greatest artists, poets, musicians, authors and hopeless romantics (like ourselves) have managed to articulate the magic of love using words so simple and perfect, sharing them with the person you love can mean the world to you both.

Here are the 100 best, most inspiring love quotes perfect for sharing with that special someone when you're searching for new, creative ways to say, "I love you."

1. 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."

— The Notebook

2. How love feels

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

— Unknown

3. It 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. Where love is, God is

"And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God."

— Les Miserables

6. Why love matters

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

— Unknown

7. 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

8. 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

9. Love is giving

"To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything."

— T. Tolis

10. Love is blind

"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

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11. Love is unselfish

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

— Theodor Reik

12. When love takes over

"The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that."

— Woody Allen

13. 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

14. Love grow and grows

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

— Leo Christopher

15. Love means togetherness

"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

16. 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

17. Love without end

"I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone."

— Lord of The Rings

18. Love is friendship

"You are my best friend, my human diary and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you."

— Unknown

19. Love is a teacher

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

— Herman Hesse

20. Love is vulnerable

"Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."

— Anna (Julia Roberts) to William (Hugh Grant) in Notting Hill

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21. Love is a choice

"I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you."

— Unknown

22. Love is complicated

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

― Friedrich Nietzsche

23. Love is crazy, mad, wonderful

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

— Harry (Billy Crystal) in When Harry Met Sally

24. How love is poetic

"At the touch of love everyone