50 Quotes About Love and Marriage

Writing your own vows is a popular (and beautiful) way to personalize your ceremony, but sometimes, finding the right words can be tricky. Or maybe you're preparing to make a toast and need a little inspiration to make your speech one-of-a-kind. To help you out, we've compiled our favorite wedding-appropriate quotes, ranging from what it feels like to fall in love to how to weather the ups and downs of marriage. Read, write, and be inspired!

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Falling in Love:

• “Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” —Unknown Author
• “And I knew exactly how old Walt Disney’s Cinderella felt when she found her prince.” —Elizabeth Young
• “When you look for the right person, you always end up with the wrong one. But when you just sit by the corner and wait, he comes along and shares the corner with you.” —Unknown Author
• “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.” —When Harry Met Sally
• “I’m feeling alive and with every breath that I take, I feel like I’ve won. You’re my key to survival.” —Secondhand Serenade
• “You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face, but in your heart as well.” —Unknown Author
• “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” —Judy Garland
• “For you see, each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.” —Rosemonde Gerard

What is Love?

• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” —Dr. Seuss
• “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
• “When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.” —Nights in Rodanthe
• “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.” —Leo Buscaglia
• “I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.” —Roy Croft
• “To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” —Robert Brault
• “A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.” —Unknown Author
• “You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” —Henry Drummond
• “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
• “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
• “In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” —Mignon McLaughlin
• “It is love that makes impossible possible.” —Indian Proverb
• “Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.” —Fawn Weaver
• “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” —Janos Arnay
• “Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beat as one.” —Friedrich Halm

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