Love Quotes

"I try to call my mother with more regularity because I think, what if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point."

- Julia Roberts

"Usually, the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty."

- Julia Roberts

"I don’t think empathy is something you can drill in someone’s head. You have to have faith that while your kids can seem to be selfish and concerned only about the word ‘mine’ sometimes, overall, they are watching you really carefully. And if you care about other people, they will too."

- Jennifer Garner

"Sometimes we try to protect our children so much that when something doesn’t go right in their lives, they’re unprepared to deal with adversity. I don’t think that does our kids any favors."

- Taraji P. Henson

"I have to keep reminding myself that I created life, and there’s no cooler thing than being able to create life inside of you. So if the repercussions of that are extra stretch marks, saggy skin and more weight on my body, so be it."

- Ashley Graham

"The one thing you’ve got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time."

- Emma Thompson

"What children take from us, they give… We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply."

- Sonia Taitz

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

- Oprah Winfrey

"As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong."

- Kristin Hannah

"Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom, but for me, she’s really the guiding force."

- Taylor Swift

"I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is."

- Oprah

"I think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don’t really know how to navigate things, and you don’t exactly know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there."

- Cynthia Rowley

"Right in the difficult, we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"We are born of love; Love is our mother."

- Rumi

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."

- Chinese Proverb

"No one ever fell in love without being a little bit brave."

- Mario Tomasello

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

- Franklin P. Jones

"When you put love out in the world, it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served."

- Nina Simone

"There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved."

- George Sand

"I will never be a morning person, for the moon and I are much too in love."

- Christopher Poindexter

"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression. Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers."

- Sylvia Plath

"I’d rather live in a world where I get to love the moon than in one where I don’t, even if the moon won’t return the feeling."

- Alex London

"If he’s the darkness, then you’re his moon, and the moon wasn’t made to be caged."

- Hafsah Faizal

"Will this be moon love, nothing but moon love? Will you be gone when the dawn comes stealing through?"

- Frank Sinatra

"In this city by the sea, walk the memories: just me and the lavender moon. She knows my heart belongs to you."

- Haroula Rose

"Well it’s a marvelous night for a moondance, with the stars up above in the skies. A wonderful night to make romance ‘neath the cover of October skies."

- Van Morrison

"Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight."

- Melody Lee

"Mothers don’t sleep. They just worry with their eyes closed."

- Unknown