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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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I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

George Harrison

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer The Man Who Studied Yoga (1956)

“Peace, simpleton!” said the Princess. “Though he said he was unhappy, it does not follow that he must be in love.”

Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for whosoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Thomas à Kempis The Imitation of Christ (1418)

Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.

Langston Hughes

Follow me reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!

Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (1967)

While we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."

Eden ahbez Nature Boy (1948)

Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today.

Zakir Hussain Quest for Truth (1999)

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two people who truly love each other to be not who shall command, but, who shall yield.

Frances Power Cobbe The Duties of Women (1881)

When Divine providence graces you, and you are endowed with passion of love and alienated from your ego, at that time Divine love enters your inmost being and He shows His Beauty to you.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

To remain satisfied and grateful for the pleasure of the Beloved, at the cost of religion and heart is necessarily passionate love, which in Sufi terminology is called faithfulness.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink,
This many and many a year.

Alexander Brome

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit — love.

Morihei Ueshiba

Sense of wrongs forget to treasure—
Brethren, live in perfect love!
In the starry realms above,
God will mete as we may measure.

Friedrich Schiller An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

Perhaps my mommy should go back to school. Perhaps she should.

James Clavell The Children's Story (1982)

We of the Shroud tend to believe in teaching those things we know we can teach, and in affairs of the heart—or gonads—there are no real experts. Love, like zen, cannot be learned, only felt.

Steve Perry The Man Who Never Missed (1985)

Love is of two natures; the love which is tranquil, which is found among both the elect and the common folk, and the love which is rapture, which is found only among the elect. This is road which leads direct to God.

Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Montesquieu Lettres Persanes (1721)

For winning love we win the risk of losing,
And losing love is as one's life were riven.

Thomas Hardy Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)

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