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Valentine's Day is one of those holidays that carries layers of meaning, depending on where you're standing in life. At its simplest, it's a day set aside to honor love and connection. It's a day with heartfelt messages, roses and chocolates. For some it's a joyful and affirming yet for others it can feel bittersweet when love has been lost, changed or complicated. The day doesn't just celebrate love; it exposes how much we value it.

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At its best, Valentine's Day is less about grand gestures and more about intentional care which could be a phone call, a shared memory or a simple kindness. Love doesn't stop existing when it's quieter, older or shaped by absence. In fact, many people discover its deepest meaning then. In that way, Valentine's Day isn't only about who you're with, it's about what love has meant to you and still does.

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"It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched..they must be felt with the heart." "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

Helen Keller

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get .. only with what you are expecting to give .. which is everything."

Katharine Hepburn

"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."

Zelda Fitzgerald

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it."

Nicholas Sparks

"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."

Loretta Young

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

Audrey Hepburn

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

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If watching a movie with your sweetheart is in your plans this Valentine's Day, here are a few swoon-worthy film choices. Love Story starring Ryan O'Neal and Ally McGraw (1970) where we recall the famous quote, "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

The Notebook starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams (2004). In the Notebook what really brings on the tears is the relationship between their older characters played by James Garner and Gena Rowlands.

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Sleepless in Seattle (1993) starred Meg Ryan (Annie Reed) and Tom Hanks (Sam Baldwin).

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In 1987, Dirty Dancing appeared on the silver screen starring Patrick Swayze (Johnny) and Jennifer Grey (Baby). So grab your favorite dance partner and have the 'time of your life' with this '80s favorite flick.

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If your movie interest is with a classic perhaps the film, Casablanca (1942) starring Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine) and Ingrid Bergman (llsa) with the famous lines .. "Of all the gin joints in all the town in all the world, she walks into mine." .. "Here's looking at you, kid."