Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood.
I believe you can make your better half feel special on any given day and turn it in Valentine's Day.
I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like Valentine's Day and New Year's and Halloween.
I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine's Day more than diamonds!
Valentine's Day is one of those tricky celebrations where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you love it, you're buying into a holiday created to sell greeting cards, bad bouquets, and shoddy love-themed stuffed animals. And if you're opposed to it, you're considered lonely and single and have clearly never had a valentine.
I love love. Every day of my life is Valentine's Day. When you're a pathological narcissist, you have to fall in love with yourself every day.
Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.
Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Valentine's day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me.
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
I love Valentine's Day because it's a fun day to show not only your significant other some love, but also your girlfriends and close family that you're caring for and thinking of them.
Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.
I have no use for Valentine's Day, with its limited menu and cramped seating.
What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Every Valentine's Day growing up, my dad would give me a strawberry cream-filled chocolate heart from Russell Stover.