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

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On Love: Words That Capture What the Heart Cannot Explain

Mar 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Love has inspired more words than any other human experience, and still we cannot fully describe it. These are the attempts that come closest.

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

Audrey Hepburn Attributed

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott How to Live with Another Person (1974)

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Osho Attributed

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt Attributed

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss Attributed

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov Attributed

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)

Where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary.

Diana Gabaldon Outlander

The heart wants what it wants — or else it does not care.

Emily Dickinson Letter to Mrs. Samuel Bowles, 1862

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

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

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore Attributed

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King Jr. A Testament of Hope (1986)

Love is not what you feel. Love is what you do.

David Wilkerson Attributed

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard Attributed