Celebrate Your Love with These Thoughtful Anniversary Quotes

It's time to celebrate the day you and your special someone made it official! There are a million ways to ring in a wedding or significant dating anniversary. Maybe you’re that person whose had the date marked on the calendar for months (or since last year) and you’ve already booked a romantic getaway or a special at-home date night. Or maybe you're a little more—how to put this delicately—forgetful, and you always seem to remember your special day when it's merely a day away, which may or may not be enough time to get a dinner reservation. There's absolutely nothing wrong with planning an intimate dinner for two, by the way. Just get a card and fill it with some thoughtful love quotes for him that convey just how you're feeling.

In any case, the best way to stay out of the anniversary doghouse this year is to take some time to share some love quotes with your special someone. They'll help you better honor your love and properly put into words just how much this anniversary—whether it's the first or the first of many—means to you.

"This is love
To fly toward a secret sky
to cause a hundred veils to
fall each moment
first, to let go of life
finally, to take a step
without feet…"

“Some people care too much. I think it’s called Love.”

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time."

"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

"You know you are in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

"In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you."

"Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply."

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."

"It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."

"All that you are is all that I'll ever need."

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

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

"I love you —I am at rest with you—I have come home."

"You are my today and all of my tomorrows."

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever."

"Grow old with me, the best is yet to be."

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."

"With our love, we could save the world."

"Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with."

"I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion."

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

“All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."