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Mother's Day Quotes

Most of what you will see here is about love in general, because the Mother page itself is short. The page is assembled from the pages on mothers, love and gratitude.

If you want quotes that are actually about mothers, the Mother page has fewer but more precise ones. For anything you plan to print or say out loud, check the source line and the label next to it.

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We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases.

Neil Strauss The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)

They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.

Neil Strauss The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)

Love is not an accident. It is a delicate union of two complex, complementary puzzle pieces that have inadvertently been created by different manufacturers.

Neil Strauss The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

Don Miller Blue Like Jazz (2003)

I've made a song for the poorly loved
And songs for everything I grieved –
For unaccompanied slave and shark,
For queens who've gone into the dark.

Guillaume Apollinaire Alcools (1912)

[T]he men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.

Warren Farrell The Myth of Male Power (1993)

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

Warren Farrell Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994)

God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.

Sarada Devi

You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper (2004)

Love your fellow creature, though vicious. Hate vice in the friend you love the most.

James Burgh The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.

Clarice Lispector An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

My Master and my Lord!
I long to do some work, some work for Thee;
I long to bring some lowly gift of love
For all Thy love to me.

Hetty Bowman

Four beautiful maids
Were all in love with me.
They said that I could have but one
So I went off to sea.

Alexander Knox The Enemy I Kill (1972)

I tolerate cold water. Anyone who says they love swimming in freezing water is either lying or has never done it.

Lewis Pugh

You may call God truth, you may call God hope. But the best name for God is love.

Michael Elmore-Meegan All Will be Well (2004)

But, visiting Sea, your love doth press
And reach in further than you know,
And fills all these, and when you go,
There's loneliness in loneliness.

Alice Meynell Poems (1893)

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.

Ronnie Radke

The love I feel for you
Is so deep and runs so true
That I even love the longing
That I feel because of you.

Florbela Espanca Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011)

Yes, there's love if you want it. Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord.

Richard Ashcroft Urban Hymns (1997)

When we fell in love, it was like discovering a new world. It was one that I had hoped was possible but had never been to before.

Ann Druyan Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)

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