National Love People Day is celebrated every year on Sept. 30. The purpose of the day is to inspire everyone with the power of unconditional love.

The day is not an official holiday. It can be marked by showing love to everyone, without any exception. Celebrate the day with these inspirational quotes, courtesy Good Reads:

1. "The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love." ― Stephen Kendrick

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

3. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

4. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." ― Pablo Neruda

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

6. "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." ― Robert A. Heinlein

7. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." ― Jodi Picoult

8. "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." ― Jane Austen

9. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." ― Paulo Coelho

10. "We love the things we love for what they are." ― Robert Frost

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