We're all familiar with love quotes and sayings. Most of us hear the same ones over and over again when we attend weddings. How many times have you heard, "Love is patient, love is kind..."? This week, we're bringing you some unique and unexpected quotes and sayings about love and relationships that will get you inspired as you plan your special day.
1. "Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now." --Fred Rogers
2. "We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." --Ellen Goodman
3. "I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It’s like finding yourself, or maybe it’s like finding the other part of yourself." --Candice Proctor
4. "Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust." --Richard Wright
5. "Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy." --Aidan Chambers
6. "The one who doesn’t tell you what you want to hear, but tells you what you need to hear. Keep this person."
7. "No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot." --Sarah Dessen
8. "Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being." --Rumi
9. "I think love is not knowing. Not knowing what’s coming next. Not knowing what to expect. Not knowing what you’re doing. Not knowing how your life will unfold in the face of it. Knowing only that whatever happens, it will all be worth it. Good or bad, you want to face it. Together. Because love…it’s the greatest thing there is. And if you’re lucky enough to be in mutual love with someone, you fight for it. You fight like hell."
10. "I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another." --John Green
11. "When you love someone, they become your reason." --David Levithan
12. "Love is not blind. It has perfect vision. It makes it possible for us to see as we have never seen before." --Leo Buscaglia
13. "Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love." --Delmore Schwartz
14. "I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves." --Steve Maraboli
15. "I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together." --Julia Roberts
