Sweetest Day
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National Sweetest Day is on Saturday and is celebrated to show the ones closest to you how much you care and love them. This day usually falls on the third Saturday in October.

The National Sweetest Day was created in 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio, by confectioner Herbert Birch Kingston and was originally named "Sweetest Day of the Year."

To mark this day, Kingston formed a committee and brought more than 20,000 small gifts and chocolates to orphans, the elderly and the poor.

This day is not only to remember those who may be elderly, orphaned or sick but also to show your affection towards those who have shown kindness and helpfulness.

Ten states that widely celebrate the holiday are Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Washington. The holiday is also celebrated to some degree in parts of New York and Pennsylvania.

Below are 15 quotes about love from Goodreads and Brainy Quote.

1. "Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more." ― Bob Marley

2. "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you." ― Elbert Hubbard

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

4. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever." ― Alfred Tennyson

5. "Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can." ― Nicholas Sparks

6. "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." ― Zelda Fitzgerald

7. "There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections." ― John Lennon

8. "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." ― Plato

9. "I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

10. "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." ― Joan Crawford

11. "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." ― James Baldwin

12. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." ― Oscar Wilde

13. "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love." ― Henry Miller

14. "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." ― Orson Welles

15. "In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free." ― Maya Angelou

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