There are no physical barriers that can stop love from spreading, especially if it is based on strong foundations. It is up to us to know how to nourish love, and keep it growing. Whether you are in a relationship or married; you are blessed with love and we are here to refresh your faith in it. We have picked twenty quotes to help uplift your spirits, ignite your spark, and help keep your relationship alive with hope and love during these unpresidented times.

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin. Put your love to the test and find new ways to fall in love with your partner.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe. The best relationships are those built on friendship and love.

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi.  You can’t complain about life being stopped when you have a loving partner. Love creates life, it will fuel you to keep going and never lose hope.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets.  This quote speaks volumes.

Love recognises no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Maya Angelou.  Say it louder Maya, some people at the back did not hear you! Quarantine got nothing on love.

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name Judy this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook.  There is a reason why this is one of the most read books!

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. Here is a movie to watch during quarantine!

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tuzu. Once you have love and courage; do you really need anything else to keep going?!

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

Unknown.  Create your own reality, embrace it and live it!

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. How beautiful! That’s why reading is the perfect way to find more ways to love and less ways to worry and stress out.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn.  Hold on, we will get there. Together we can do it!

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche.  Now is the perfect time to put that theory into the test.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austin. Basically, Jane is saying life is incomplete without a woman. Can’t disagree with that!

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Henry Ward Beecher. Be the one with wings!!

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Moliere. Do not treat it like a cage, it is a gateway to make your love stronger.

 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. Just beautiful, no other words needed.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Wuthering Heights.  That was the status of many high school sweethearts, back in the day!

A marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara De Angelis. Amen!

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. You can see that Maya always speaks the most beautiful truth!

 Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato.  No better way to end the quotes except with Plato.

That concludes our quotes series. Always remember – you have got each other, and that all that matters. Stay safe; it is the new “I love you”!