“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”— Mindy Kaling, parade.com
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”— Bea Arthur, Dorothy, amazon.com
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”— Meryl Streep, parade.com
“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”— Michael Jordan, parade.com
“When they’ve finished reading, Olivia’s mother gives her a kiss and says, ‘You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway.’ And Olivia gives her a kiss back and says, ‘I love you anyway too.'”— Ian Falconer, amazon.com
“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.”— JK Rowling, parade.com
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”— Maya Angelou, parade.com
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”— Mitch Albom, parade.com
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”— Gail Tsukiyama, parade.com
“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”— Roald Dahl, parade.com
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”— David Mitchell, books.google.com
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”— Stephen Fry, books.google.com
“The more I think about it, the more I realize that overthinking isn't the real problem. The real problem is that we don't trust.”— L.J Vanier, amazon.com
“She wants to refuse to be somewhere near him and to see him once more after such a long time, but something about the fact of seeing him draws her to be here, anyway.”— Cassie Gacott, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes things make more sense the second time around. People change, you change and the universe changes, if we keep ourselves confined to first chances only, we will truly miss out on some of the most beautiful things in life.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know people will call me stupid for this. But Love, I can still see the truth in your lonely eyes. I can see the long lost stars in the corner of your eyes – you know that the stars are my weakness. I see the boundless hopes of wanting me back into your life and that’s why I’m coming back to you.”— Martin Manuel, thoughtcatalog.com
“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but ‘safe’ isn’t one of them.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com