Devotion Quotes

"A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

"Attention is the beginning of devotion."

Mary Oliver

“Where Rama is, there is Ayodhya.”

The Ramayana (Sita)

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves."

Jane Austen

"Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all."

Soren Kierkegaard

"Hear my soul speak: the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service."

"Love is the reduction of the universe to a single being, and the expansion of a single being even to God."

Victor Hugo

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face."

W. B. Yeats

"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."

Charles Dickens

"But to see her was to love her; love but her, and love for ever."

Robert Burns

“I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.”

“I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion.”

John Keats

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

Charles Dickens

“I more than love you, I'm not whole without you.”

“Escape me? Never, Beloved! While I am I, and you are you.”

Robert Browning

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”

Mark Twain

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.”

Thomas à Kempis

“I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.”

Richard Lovelace

“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes.”

“Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house.”