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Whether you’re searching for the perfect words to complement your wedding ceremony or to steal — err, borrow heavily from — for your wedding vows, we’ve got you covered with these 20 romantic quotes sure to draw a sigh or even a tear.
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” — Andre Maurois
“Walking with your hands in mine and mine in yours, that’s exactly where I want to be always.” — Fawn Weaver
“And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” — Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet
“Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.” — Dwight Moody
“A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner everyday.” — Barbara De Angelis
“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
“Who, being loved, is poor?” — Oscar Wilde
“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones.” — Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller
“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” — Robert Brault
“You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” — George Moore
“Love me and the world is mine.” — David Reed
“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.” — William Lyon Phelps
“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
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.” — Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? — George Eliot
“Marriages, like a garden, take time to grow. But the harvest is rich unto those who patiently and tenderly care for the ground.” — Darlene Schacht
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” — Mark Twain
“You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.” — Anais Nin