What It's Like Loving You: Quotes For Your Next Anniversary Card

Explaining your experience in love can be a challenge, especially when you are trying to do so on an anniversary card. While using a quote from someone else might seem like the easy way out, there are ways to use someone else's perfect words to describe how you feel for your spouse. You might choose one of the below quotes and elaborate on it. Explain why you chose that quote - what it means to you and how it relates to how you feel.

Using husband and wife quotes as a starting point is a great way to start communicating your feelings to your partner. In fact, if you and your partner are struggling in your marriage, using the words of someone else to kick start your conversation can help! It is easy to start with a quote. You might also try  marriage counseling to help develop better communication skills in your relationship.

Even if your marriage is not experiencing problems at the moment, love quotes and intimacy quotes in a card can be a great touch. Or, you might have so many feelings for your spouse that you are unable to sum it up in a card. A quote might even inspire your own words to come forth. No matter how the following quotes help you, you must find a way to express your feelings of love to your partner.

Quotes that you might add to your spouse's anniversary card

1. "I need you like a heart needs a beat." - Unknown
2. "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert A. Heinlein
3. "A life lived in love will never be dull." - Leo Buscaglia
4. "When I say I love you more, I don't mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us. I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most." - Unknown
5. "True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
6. "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." - A. A. Milne
7. "I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more." - Angelita Lim
8. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love." - Sophocles
9. "Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it." - Landon Carter (Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember)
10. "My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness." - André Breton
11. "Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive." - Unknown
12. "To love is to burn, to be on fire." - Jane Austen
13. "I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow." - Leo Christopher
14. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." - Pablo Neruda
15. "Love is not love until love's vulnerable." - Theodore Roethke
16. "Love 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." - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
17. "Love is friendship on fire." - Susan Sontag
18. "People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life." - Elizabeth Gilbert
19. "To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed." - Valerie Lombardo
20. "I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
21. "Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will." - Elaine Davis
    
22. "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." - Noah (Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook)
23. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
24. "Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
25. "You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting, and worthwhile." - Bob Marley
26. "I love you more than coffee, but please don't make me prove it." - Elizabeth Evans
27. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
28. "Where there is love, there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
29. "Love is more than a noun -" - William Arthur Ward
30. "We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness-and call it love-true love." - Robert Fulghum
31. "My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul." - Boris Kodjoe
32. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
33. "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
34. - Jeanne Moreau
35. "I am so totally, completely, overwhelmingly, eye-poppingly, life-changingly, spectacularly, passionately, deliciously in love with you." - Unknown
36. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
37. "To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you are the world." - Bill Wilson
38. "You have found true love when you realize that you want to wake up beside your love every morning even when you have your differences." - Unknown
39. "You are the source of my joy, the center of my world, and the whole of my heart." - Unknown
40. "In this crazy world, full of change and chaos, there is one thing of which I am certain, one thing which does not change: my love for you." - Unknown
41. "I love you, and that's the beginning and end of everything." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. "I've fallen in love many times…always with you." - Unknown
43. "Thank you for always being my rainbow after the storm." - Unknown
44. "I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you." - Roy Croft
45. "And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, "Oh, there you are. I've been looking all over for you." - Unknown

Using quotes to define your feelings

Not all people are master wordsmiths. Quotes are documented, however, because many people that are wordsmiths have felt the things that you feel. It can be satisfying to find the words of another human being that put your feelings into perfect shape. By using Quotes in your anniversary card, you are showing your spouse that you took the time to find words that match your feelings, even when you couldn't come up with the words on your own. That thoughtfulness adds to the card in a way that a simple, "Happy Anniversary," might not. Use a quote, add your thoughts to a quote, or find inspiration in a quote. However, you decide to put it to use best as long as it is true.