1Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
Good HousekeepingYou are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
2Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
Good HousekeepingI belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.
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3Henry David Thoreau
Good HousekeepingThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
4Atticus
Good HousekeepingLove her but leave her wild.
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5Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Good HousekeepingI can’t see anything I don’t like about you.
6Unknown
Good HousekeepingThinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
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7Helen Keller
Good HousekeepingWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
8Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Good HousekeepingOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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9Elaine Davis
Good HousekeepingLoved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.
10Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Good HousekeepingTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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111 Corinthians 13:4-7
Good HousekeepingLove is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
12Buddha
Good HousekeepingYou, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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13James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Good HousekeepingLove takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
14Quincy, Love and Basketball
Good HousekeepingAll’s fair in love and basketball.
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15Edgar Allen Poe
Good HousekeepingWe loved with a love that was more than love.
16Loretta Young
Good HousekeepingLove isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
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17Justice, Poetic Justice
Good HousekeepingLove is a juice with many tastes. Some bitter, others sweet. A wine which has few vineyards.
18bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Good HousekeepingThe practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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19Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Good HousekeepingOne is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
20Saint Ignatius
Good HousekeepingLove is shown more in deeds than in words.

Cameron (she/her) is a staff writer for Good Housekeeping, where she covers everything from holidays to food. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she received a B.A. in magazine journalism. In her spare-time she can be found scrolling TikTok for the latest cleaning hacks and restaurant openings, binge-watching seasons of Project Runway or online shopping.

Larry Stansbury is a writer whose work has appeared in POPSUGAR, Sports Illustrated, Her Campus, Distractify and more. He covers a wide range of topics, including entertainment, lifestyle and sports. Larry graduated with a B.A. in writing and rhetoric from Syracuse University in 2018. When he’s not writing, he is either working out, eating carbs or dancing to the next Little Mix song.
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