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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.

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

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

David Viscott How to Live with Another Person (1974)
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Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Osho Attributed
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The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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

Peter Ustinov Attributed
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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)
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Where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary.

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

Emily Dickinson Letter to Mrs. Samuel Bowles, 1862
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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)
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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

Martin Luther King Jr. A Testament of Hope (1986)
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Love is not what you feel. Love is what you do.

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

Elbert Hubbard Attributed