10 Love Quotes That Will Make Your Vows Everything They Can Be

Writing your own vows is hard. How do you find just the right words to express exactly the feelings you have for your partner? If you're experiencing writer's block, it doesn't mean that you don't feel ALL the feelings...you need some help in the creativity department. So, here are 10 perfect love quotes that you can include in your vows, ceremony, or a day-of love note for you beau.

 “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." ― Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death." ― Eleanor Roosevelt

"When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed." ― Fred Rogers

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."― Rumi

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." ― Maya Angelou

"Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will ― namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love." ― M. Scott Peck

"I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest ― blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine." ― Charlotte Brontë, "Jane Eyre"

"The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now." ― Rick Warren

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." ― Erich Segal

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson