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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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Most quoted on mother's day:

Some Argentines, without means, do it,
People say, in Boston, even beans do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter Paris (1928)

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell History of the Anti-Corn Law League (1853)

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

William James Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (1485)

It is love alone that gives value to all things.

Teresa of Ávila

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Sandra Bernhard

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.

William Moulton Marston The Emotions of Normal People (1928)

The love of Allah and His Prophet (Muhammad) is infinitely superior to the love of mortal human beings and of other worldly things.

Meher Ali Shah The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

The gnostic (arif) attains the station of passionate love of God so that he may experience Godhead or His pure Essence.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

Elbert Hubbard A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

In his opinion, neither justice nor mercy were very closely related to love, let alone being identical with it—otherwise, why have three words instead of one? A metaphor is not a tautology.

James Blish A Style in Treason (1970)

The spiritual state of nearness of God is a sign of true saintliness. This ultimately results in the experience of love and longing for early union.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Arthur Miller The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia Born For Love (1994)

Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.

Meher Baba Meher Baba’s Call (1954)

He doesn’t know how one proceeds under the circumstances, except with the certainty, pressed to the heart like a keepsake of love, that in the end nothing really matters.

Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.

R. A. Lafferty Arrive at Easterwine (1971)

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Paul Tillich The New Being (1955)

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