It’s time to bring out your sweet side for February 14th. Valentine’s Day offers the perfect opportunity to express to friends, family, partners, and even our professional relationships, how much we care about them. Valentine’s Day is unequivocally the most sentimental day of the year…but there’s nothing wrong with some oversentimentality now and again.
Tell your friends and family how much you love them. Holdyour significant other close and be transparent about all the ways they arespecial to you. Tell your kids, mom and dad, brothers and sisters, even yourdog that though they may drive you nuts sometimes, it’s their companionshipthat makes your life amazing.
You can also reach out to your professional relationships onValentine’s Day with an appropriate Valentine’s Day card — express tocustomers, clients, coworkers, and employees that their contributions in yourlife give you fulfillment.
The History of Valentine’s Day
One of the staples of Valentine’s Day is the Valentine’s Day card. Many still believe that Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday; in other words, greeting card companies invented Valentine’s Day as a way to sell more cards. This is a common misconception, Valentine’s Day is actually thought to have originated from ancient Rome and gets its name from patron Saint Valentine. There are several stories surrounding St. Valentine, but the most popular states that St. Valentine was a priest back in third-century Rome who married people in secret. Emperor Claudius II felt that single men made better soldiers so he had outlawed any new marriages at the time. Valentine saw this as a travesty and went against Claudius’ wishes. When Claudius found out, he sentenced Valentine to death.
Awaiting his sentence, St. Valentine was held captive andended up falling in love with the jailer’s daughter (or so the story goes). Onthe day of his execution (February 14th), Valentine wrote thejailer’s daughter a love note, and, as legend has it, signed the note ‘FromYour Valentine.’ The first celebration for this holiday was said to take placein the year 496. To celebrate the coming of spring, the Romans had a festival knownas Lupercalia. As part of the celebration during Lupercalia, boys selected girls’names from a box that they would court. Later, Valentine’s Day was adopted as aChristian holiday to celebrate Saint Valentine.
Today, Valentine’s Day is known universally as a way toexpress our love and appreciation to one another through nice gestures,gifts,kind words, greeting cards, boxes of chocolate,and more. Sometimes it can be hard to express your true feelings and articulateto those closest to you the positive role they play in your life. Here are somesuggestions, Happy Valentine’s Day quotes, and valentine’s Day sayings toinclude in your Valentine’s Day cards, love notes, and more on February 14th!
Valentine’s Day Messages for Your Significant Other
Personalize love you messages that mean something. TheseValentine greetings are just to get your mind working. Make these cuteValentine sayings your own and let them help to create new cute Valentine’sideas.
Valentine’s cardideas and Valentine’s quotes
- You are my life and my love – everything thatbrings joy to my day and a smile to my face when I sleep. You are the best partof my world and what my universe centers around. Happy Valentine’s Day.
- Every year I love you more and more.
- We have been through a lot and are strongerbecause of it. I love you very much.
- To my best friend and partner, thank you formaking my life truly special.
- Love you now and always.
- You are home to me.
- You are uncompromisingly loyal to those you decideto love…and for that I love you.
- “Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”– Truman Capote
- “There is only one happinessin life: to love and be loved.” – George Sand
For cute sayings forhim or her and cute Valentine’s day quotes, try some cute Valentine’s sayingslike these:
- I enjoy cuddling up next to you.
- Kisses and hugs to my one and only love.
- You are the most special thing in the world tome.
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is eachother.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “You know you’re in love whenyou can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” –Dr. Seuss
Funny Valentinesayings
- I love you more than pizza.
- You are a true badass.
- You are bold, beautiful, and basically the best.
- Your dark side is no match for your sweet side.
- Thank you for taking on all my crazy!
- “All you need is love. But alittle chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “It’s better to have lovedand lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.” – Laurence J. Pete
- “Love is a grave mentaldisease.” – Plato
Sweet messages forher
- You look especially stunning in black, andwith smoky eyeshadow, oooh and white jeans, and of course leopard print. Andfor that I love you.
- To my sweetheart, you inspire me to be thegreatest man I can be. Thank you for always believing in me, for pushing me tobecome better, and for loving me each day.
- Happy Valentine’s Day, my love. You are myeverything.
Love words for himand Valentine’s Day quotes for him
- When you smile, I melt.
- You are my strength. You are my heart. You aremy love.
- You make me laugh; sometimes you make me cry,but you always make me love.
- “A successful marriagerequires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – MignonMcLaughlin
- “I want a man who’s kind andunderstanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?” – Zsa Zsa Gabor
Sexy sayings
- Our love is not a burning flame but a roaringfire!
- You are sexy, beautiful, strong, and the bestValentine I could ask for!
- You’re the person I want to stay in bed with allday.
- “It’s sexy and beautiful to be strong.” – LindseyVonn
- “If you’re feeling blue, lockyourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance – and laugh atyourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced. Makefun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.” – Salma Hayek
- “I think peopleare sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they havesome sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions,when they are creative, when they have character.” – Suzanne Vega
Loving you messages
- “All you need is love.” – John Lennon
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” –Henry David Thoreau
- Valentine’s Day gives me one more opportunity totell you just how much I love you all throughout the year!
Valentine’s for Family
Beyond your husband or wife, you may want to expressValentine’s messages to your children, parents, or another family member thatyou appreciate. Here are some suggestions.
Children
- To my sweet little happy Valentine – I love youvery much.
- May your Valentine’s Day be filled with candyhugs and chocolate kisses.
- You are sweet. You are special. You are my funnylittle Valentine.
- You fill my life with love. Happy Valentine’sDay!
Parents
- You gave me love that will last forever. HappyValentine’s Day!
- To two very special people that filled my worldwith love – Happy Valentine’s Day!
- Sending all my love your way this Valentine’sDay!
Other family
- Love is family.
- You bring me joy on Valentine’s Day and allthroughout the year!
Valentine’s for Friends
Valentine sayings for your friends can help to convey howmuch they mean to you throughout the year. Here are some Valentine’s Day card ideasfor valentines to your friends, including Valentine’s Day quotes for friends, Valentinemessages for friends, funny Valentine messages for friends, and cute sayingsfor friends on Valentine’s Day.
- Valentine’s Day is about many kinds of love –your friendship has meant so much to me over the years, and I wanted to let youknow that I appreciate you always.
- “The best and most beautifulthings in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with theheart.” – Helen Keller
- Sending Valentine’s Day wishes to you on thisspecial day!
- Happy Valentine’s Day, my friend; love youalways!
- Girlfriends 4ever!
- “Love is the greatestrefreshment in life.” – Pablo Picasso
Professional Valentines
These Valentine card ideas are for your professional relationships; sendthese Valentine’s messages to your customers, coworkers, and employees.
Customers
- We (heart) our customers.
- Valentine’s Day is about thanking all thespecial people who make your day amazing.
- Thank you for your business. Thank you for your friendship.Thank you for a Happy Valentine’s Day!
Coworkers
- Thank you for being a wonderful coworker – HappyValentine’s Day!
- To my work husband and/or wife, you make thedays bearable. Happy Valentine’s Day!
- “What the world really needsis more love and less paperwork.” – Pearl Bailey
Employees
- “Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.” – Christopher Marlowe
- “The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.”– Denise Morrison
- Thank you on Valentine’s Day for your hard work throughout the year.
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