14 Inspiring Sayings, Songs & Poems to Get You in the Mood

Happy Valentine's Day!  I asked this month's amazing group of medium and large sponsors to share their favorite sayings, quotes, songs, or poems about love with Bubby and Bean's readers.  They came up with some pretty inspiring picks, I have to say.  Whether you're celebrating love for your partner, friends, family, kids, pets or your awesome self today, these 14 (+ some extras!) goodies are sure to get you in the mood for love.  To find out more about the rad people behind the submissions below, just click on their names or on the links below each of their submissions to visit their homes around the web.

Even after all this time, the Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that; it lights the whole sky. -Hafiz

>>> VISIT MARIA'S BLOG // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

BRANDI: Love is a choice.
This saying has always stuck with me through tough times. It really put things in perspective.

KELLY: The song La Vie En Rose.
I'm a complete mush, romantic, fool. I have hundreds of favorite quotes and sayings etc, but my fall back solid good love song is la vie en rose. There's this old bar downtown Houston with a it on the juke and I can't leave until I hear it. Sucker.

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.  -Rumi 

>>> VISIT LAURA'S BLOG // SHOP // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -Dr. Seuss

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I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
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 than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. -Pablo Neruda

>>> VISIT CITLALLI'S SHOP // BLOG // TWITTER // PINTEREST

To be with you, it's perfect. -The Cure
My husband and I got our wedding bands engraved with our favorite misheard lyrics from The Cure.

>>> VISIT ALYCIA'S BLOG // PINTEREST // TWITTER

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

>>> VISIT KATE'S BLOG // SHOP // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

People are never perfect, but love can be... We waste time waiting for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. -Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

>>> VISIT SUSANNAH'S BLOG // SHOP // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

SONGS:  Daniel Johnston Go, REM At My Most Beautiful, Flaming Lips When You Smile, Talking Heads This Must Be the Place, Animal Collective The Purple Bottle, Fleetwood Mac Wild Hear
BOOKS: any poetry by Leonard Cohen or Just Kids by Patti Smith
MOVIES: Annie Hall or Casablanca

>>> VISIT LAUREN'S SHOP // BLOG // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

And I can't believe oh that I'm your man and I get to kiss you baby just because I can. Whatever comes our way, oh we'll see it through and you know that's what our love can do. -Michael Buble, from the song Everything

>>> VISIT JENNY'S BLOG // SHOP // FACEBOOK // PINTEREST

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)  -E.E. Cummings

>>> VISIT JULIE'S SHOP // BLOG // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

Stevie Wonder's I Believe and Elton John's Your Song
I'm not a super gushy and sentimental person, but these songs get me every time.

>>> VISIT HEIDI'S BLOG // SHOP // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

When it comes to relationships, there are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love that you you love, well, that's just fabulous. -Sex and the City

>>> VISIT SANDRA'S BLOG // FACEBOOK // TWITTER

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Your turn!  What are your favorite sayings/lyrics/quotes/songs about L-O-V-E?