There might be a lot of things to celebrate the anniversary of, but today, it’s all about love. We present to you a collection of happy anniversary quotes! Perhaps you’re in search of words to express your love to a significant other or want to send a card to a dear couple whose wedding you attended? Whichever it is, this list of romantic love sayings might be what you are looking for.
From pottery to diamond wedding anniversaries, each calls for a different set of words, different levels of meaning, and ways to deliver it. Luckily, these oozing-with-love anniversary quotes should fit all occasions, as they can express feelings only found in between the words, but that’s exactly where love hides anyway.
And now, prepare to take a deep dive into the wonderful world of love quotes! We hope you love the quotes we’ve compiled below, and if you do, pick your favorite ones and give them an upvote! We’re sure you’ll find something fitting to wish a happy anniversary to the lovely couple in your life or a lovebird of yours.
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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” ― Mignon McLaughlin
I've read this one before and it's as beautiful as it is true. There's no such a thing as a perfect partner, but what you consider the good in them has to outweigh the bad, and hopefully, that goodness is what will make you keep on falling for them, time and time again.
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret
Very wisely put. It`s always the tiny things that, added together, make all the difference in the world.
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm a hopeless romantic through and through and I just swooned a bit reading this (even though I've read it before).
“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.” ― Barnette R. Brickner
“When you meet the one who changes the way your heart beats, dance with them to that rhythm for as long as the song lasts.” — Kirk Diedrich
Here's on hoping - if it's the right person - that the music never stops!
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
And in the luckiest of the situations, you find yourself with increased strength and courage.
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.“ – Dave Meurer
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” ― Stephanie Perkins
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” ― Joyce Brothers
“A marriage anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
“I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.” — Faraaz Kazi
“The couples that are ‘meant to be’ are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart and come out even stronger than they were before.”
“I’m much more me when I’m with you.”
That's all we (at least I) hope to find, isn't it? Someone who not only lets us be ourselves but brings out the very best in us...
“The anniversary date of a loved one's death is particularly significant. You will have done something you thought was impossible a few months earlier. You will have survived an entire year without someone who was as important to you as life itself.” ― Bob Diets
“If two people love each other, nothing is impossible. Except deciding where to eat.”
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” — Paulo Coelho
“If I had a flower for every time thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.” — Alfred Tennyson
“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” — E.E. Cummings
“The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal.“ — Frank Pittman
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” — James A. Baldwin
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” — Tom Bodett
“Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.“ – Carl Reiner
So damn true. One famous couple I adore - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz learned that the hard way. I think it was Desi in his autobiography who said that he and Lucy loved each other intensely, but only learned to like each other after their divorce. Shows how important it is to love and like the love of your life.
“You know you are in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” ― Henny Youngman
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“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. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” ― Roy Croft
“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.” ― Kami Garcia
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’” ― Erich Fromm
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.” — Pablo Neruda
“Those monumental anniversary celebrations aren't what ultimately determine the actual direction of our marriage. Rather, it's the here and now. It's those daily decisions we make individually and together that influence how our relationship actually fares in the long run.“ — Ashleigh Slater
"The expression of love to another is not reserved for a single day or for a special event or occasion like an anniversary for a birthday. The celebration of love is more about how you live each day with the one you love and care for."
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
“I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.” — Juliette Drouet
“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
“It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” ― Rita Rudner
So true. I'm only playful with people I tend to care a lot about, be it friends, family members, or significant other.
“A good marriage is like a casserole—only those responsible for it really knows what goes in it.”
“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
“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
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.” — Cassandra Clare
“As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change… I will always keep falling in love with you.” — Karen Clodfelder
“An anniversary is where you look back at having either fulfilled Cinderella or Lord of the Flies.” ― Fernando A. Torres
“Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.”
“To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong—admit it, whenever you’re right—shut up.” — Ogden Nash
“Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.” — Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
“An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.”
"Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." — William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
“Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.“ — Will Moss
“An anniversary is not divided into mere hours of a day but measured in each moment when two never stop being one.“ — Byron Pulsifer
“The two of you make a difference in our lives. You give us an example of what a happy marriage looks like. Wishing you many more years. Happy Anniversary.“ — Kate Summers
"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year." — Paul Sweeney
“Unless you want to forget your marriage, it’s a good idea to remember your anniversary.” — Melanie White
“An archaeologist is best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon
“For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.” — James Dillet Freeman
“Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse? Does that not mean something? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?” — Charles Dickens
“You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down." — George Bailey
“What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.“ – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.“ — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” ― Julia Child
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.” ― John Green
“For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.” — Catherine Zeta-Jones
"To the most beautiful person who has given me the most beautiful life, a very happy anniversary."
“Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable… for us, forever just won’t do.” — Steve Maraboli
“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
“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.”
“Marriage is like a deck of cards: At the start, all you need is two hearts and a diamond, but after a while, you just wish you had a club and a spade!”
“There is no end to a wedding anniversary when love is always full and growing each and every day.“ — Byron Pulsifer
“Here is to loving, to romance, to us. May we travel together through time. We alone count as none, but together we're one, For our partnership puts love to rhyme.“
"Our anniversary reminds me that when we married there were just the two of us, but now look at our family - children and grandchildren that we love and cherish. What we created together is worth more than anything in this world and our love for each other and for our family just gets stronger each day." —Robert Rivers
“I remember one of my uncles advising me with some powerful lines of wisdom on the occasion of his silver wedding anniversary: “You can’t live a superficial life for long - just like water, which will always find its natural path.” — Sumeet Jain
"Well, we made it another year without one of us either ending up dead or in jail. I call that a win. Happy Anniversary!"
Sorry, I sincerely doubt that "You know you're in love when" quote is Dr. Seuss. It's not anything like his style.
Sorry, I sincerely doubt that "You know you're in love when" quote is Dr. Seuss. It's not anything like his style.