Our Favorite Quotes About Mothers

Happy Mother's Day, BuDhaGirls! Today we honor all of the Mindfully Glamorous mamas out there who make the world go round with their kindness, selflessness and love.

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love." - Stevie Wonder

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm

"A good mother is irreplaceable." - Adriana Trigiani

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." - William Makepeace Thackeray

"It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?" - Mahatma Gandhi

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories." - Honore de Balzac

"Mothers and 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

"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation." - Robert A. Heinlein

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." - Harriet Beecher Stowe