Valentines Day 2018

Valentine’s Day 2018 traditions include card and gift giving. Popular gifts exchanged on the day include cards, fresh flowers (mainly the rose), chocolates and sweets. Additionally, people also complement these with other gifts of love to express affection and love. Valentine's Day dinner and dance parties are organized all over the country to celebrate the occasion. Many couples hold private celebrations in homes or restaurants. Children also gift handmade gifts and cards to their friends and loved ones.

Valentine’s Day 2018 takes place on February 14 annually. The day on which the holiday falls on changes but the date remains the same; consult the above table for exact dates.

The day first became associated with romantic love in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). Today, Valentine’s Day 2018 is recognized as a significant cultural and commercial celebration in many regions around the world, although it is not a public holiday in any country.

Happy Valentines Day 2018

Happy Valentines Day 2018, the day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart", as well as to children, in order to ward off epilepsy (called Saint Valentine's Malady). Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.

In the United States, about 190 million Valentine's Day cards are sent each year. And that figure does not include the hundreds of millions of cards school children exchange. Additionally, in recent decades Valentine's Day has become increasingly commercialized and a popular gift-giving event, with Valentine’s Day themed advertisements encouraging spending on loved ones. In fact, in the United States alone, the average valentine’s spending has increased every year, from $108 a person in 2010 to $131 in 2018.

Valentine Quotes

1. "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." — Jennifer Aniston

2. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." — Ingrid Bergman

3. "When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction." — Ginger Rogers

4. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return." — "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

5. "I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. "You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." — Oscar Wilde

7. "Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all." — Hemingway

8. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." — Charles Schulz

9. "Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi

10. "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make." — Paul McCartney

Valentines Day Quotes

1. "Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime." — Bette Davis

2. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." — Lao Tzu

3. "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H. L. Mencken

4. "Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one." — Unknown

5. "We are shaped and fashioned by those we love." — Geothe

6. "When love is not madness it is not love." ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

7. "Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused." ― Paulo Coelho

8. "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." ― Pablo Neruda

9. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ― Sophocles

10. "You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness." — Julia Roberts