Motherly Love Quotes

• Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be strong, guiding and unselfish. The sweetly sung lullaby; the cool hand on the feverd brow, the Mother's Day smiles and flowers are only a small part of the picture. True mothers have to be made of steel to withstand the difficulties that are sure to beset their children.

  Rachel Billington

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Light, Motherly

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• Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Care, Motherly

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Children, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Oneness, Erotic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.34, Routledge

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