William Wordsworth Quotes

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.

my mother will never leave me. We're together. She will always stay in my heart.

Kiss me with your eyes.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.