The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.
We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.
I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
Aren’t you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children’s Place at your age? I’m sure there’s some third-grader dying to know who bought the last navy I-sore shirt. (Nekoda)
I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.
My No. 1 hobby and interest is being a mom. It's something that makes me passionate, you know?
I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.
When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.
In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.
I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.
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