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Mother Quotes

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“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~Milton Berle

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ~Victor Hugo

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ~William Makepeace Thackeray

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.’ ~Irish Proverb

“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” ~Rudyard Kipling

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” ~Aristotle

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” ~Agatha Christie

“No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.” ~Harry Truman

“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” ~Joseph Stefano

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~Sophocles

“Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.” ~Ann Taylor

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ~Washington Irving

Best Love Quotes

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”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. ” Audre Lorde

”It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

”True love stories never have endings. ” Richard Bach

”In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ” Erich Fromm

”In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ” Madame de Stael

”Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm

”Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. ” Madame de Stael

”If you want to be loved, be lovable. ” Ovid

”Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ” C. S. Lewis

”Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ” William Arthur Ward

”If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ” Michel de Montaigne

”A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ” Boethius

”Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ” Maya Angelou

”If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” A. A. Milne

”A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ” Stendhal

”Love is a better teacher than duty. ” Albert Einstein

”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ” Emmet Fox

”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ” Maya Angelou

”I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ” George Eliot

”Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ” Ella Fitzgerald

”I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ” Daphne Rae

”What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ” Nathaniel Hawthorne

”I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ” Judy Garland

”A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ” Honore de Balzac

”A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ” Marilyn Monroe

”How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ” Barbara Pym

”All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ” Andre Breton

”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ” Peter Ustinov

”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ” Albert Einstein

”If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ” John Lennon

”Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ” Charles Caleb Colton

”Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ” Rita Rudner

”One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ” Sophocles

”For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ” Judy Garland

”Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.

”First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ” George Bernard Shaw

”A life lived in love will never be dull. ” Leo Buscaglia

”Do all things with love. ” Og Mandino

”The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. ” Vincent van Gogh

”Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ” Samuel Lover

”Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” Rumi

”Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ” Richard Bach

”At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ” Plato

”Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ” C. S. Lewis

”A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ” Thomas Carlyle

Madame de Stael

Friendship Quotes

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Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.

Your friends are what will matter in the end.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.
It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

True friends are like stars in the sky. They’re most clear in the darkest of times.

Good Friends Are Hard To Find, Harder To Leave, An Impossible To Forget…

A Best Friend Wont Let You Do Stupid Things…..Alone

Me and you are friends!
You cry, i cry
You fight, i fight
you jump off bridge
I get a paddle boat and save your retarded Butt!!

A best friend is a sister destiny forgot to give you.

Friends are like a box of crayons. Each one is different from the others separately, but put them together and they make a rainbow.

Someone who will pick you up, when your feeling down …..lend an ear when you need to talk, hold your hand when you are scared, be by your side, when you are lonely…..accepts you for you…..that is a true friend.

A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand…and touches your heart.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

A road to a friend’s house is never long.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.

No person is Ur friend who demands Ur silence, or denies ur right to grow.

Our paths may change as life goes along, but the bond between friends remains ever strong…

Friendship is not a big thing – its a million little things.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.

Friendship is not a big thing – its a million little things.

Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are always close to the heart.

The most I can do 4 my friend is simply be his friend

Inspirational Quotes

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. — Stephen Covey

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Ghandi

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. —Mother Teresa

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. — Anonymous

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Mark Twain

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. — Joshua J. Marine

It is never too late to be what we might have been. — George Eliot

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. — William M. Thackeray

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. — Oscar Wilde

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright

This, too, shall pass. — Jewish proverb

The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. — Anna Quindlen

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. — Egyptian Proverb

Some men see things the way they are and ask, “Why?” I dream things that never were, and ask “Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. — Chinese Proverb

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. — Edgar Allan Poe

My friends are my estate. — Emily Dickinson

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. — Buddha

Sweet Quotes to Say to Someone Special

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I know that all of us always wanted to impress special persons in our lifes. Today, I’m gonna show you some great sweet quotes to say to someone special. At the end, please tell me your opinion about these quotes. Thanks :)

When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ Dr Seans

A Friend is a treasure.
More precious than Gold,
For love shared is priceless
And never grows old. ~ Unknown Author

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown Author

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ~ Roy Croft

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.~ Unknown Author

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.~ Unknown Author

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

Some of the greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream… ~ Unknown Author

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Unknown Author

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much. ~ Unknown Author

As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change…I will always keep falling in love with you. ~ Karen

If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you. ~ Winnie the Pooh

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~ Winnie the Pooh

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. ~ Unknown Author

The best thing about me is you. ~ Shannon Crown

Life in abundance comes only through great love. ~ Elbert GreenHubbard

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Unknown Author

If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will. ~ Unknown Author

Love means never having to say you are sorry. ~ Erich Sehgal (from book Love Story)

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. ~ Unknown Author

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa

If you love someone

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IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE

If you love someone because you think that he or she is really gorgeous, then it’s not love, it’s infatuation

If you love someone because you think that you shouldn’t leave him because others think that you shouldn’t, then it’s not love, it’s compromise

If you love someone because you think that you cannot live without his touch, then it’s not love, it’s lust

If you love someone because you have been kissed by him, then it’s not love, it’s inferiority complex

If you love someone because you cannot leave him thinking that it would hurt his feelings, then it’s not love, it’s charity

If you love someone because you share every thing with him, then it’s not love, it’s friendship

But If you feel the pain of the other person more than him even when he is stable and you cry for him, that’s LOVE

If you get attracted to other people but stay with him without any regrets, that’s LOVE

If you let him go knowing that he has to go but he doesn’t want to, that’s LOVE

Feeling Lonely Quotes

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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? – George Eliot

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Francis Behan

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland

If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. – Martha Beck

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. – Paul Theroux

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. – Jules Renard

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Wise Quotes about Love

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A guy knows he’s in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. – Tim Allen

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. – Mother Teresa

Love is the history of a woman’s life; it is an episode in man’s. – Germaine De Stael

Love makes life so confusing but without love would you want to live? – Unknown

Romance is the icing, but love is the cake. – Unknown

Age does not protect you from love. But, love, to some extent, protects you from age – Jeanne Moreau

Love either finds equality or makes it. – John Dryden

Love is friendship set on fire. – Jeremy Taylor

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. – Henry Ward Beecher