Being A Mom Quotes - Page 9

• I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.

  Heidi Klum

  Mom, Years, People

  "Celeb New Year's Resolutions for 2011: Amy Poehler, Ryan Seacrest, Heidi Klum and more". www.mcall.com. January 05, 2011.

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• Motherhood changes everything.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mom, Motherhood

  Interview with Margo Hammond, Ellen Heltzel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 1, 2005.

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• I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

  Joan Lunden

  Mom, Morning, Children

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• None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

  Anne Tyler

  Mom, Motherhood, Age

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

  Zoe Tapper

  Mom, Motherhood, Earth

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• Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mom, Motherhood, Careers

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• I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

  Natascha McElhone

  Mom, Zero, Father

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• Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Mom, Motherhood, Blessing

  "Kelly Cutrone Speaks To Storked!". Interview with Christine Coppa, www.glamour.com. February 23, 2010.

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• Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mom, Mother, Worry

  Adriana Trigiani (2001). “Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel”, p.278, Random House

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• Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mom, Husband, World

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• A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mom, Pregnancy, Two

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mom, Order, Years

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• 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.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mom, Jobs, Hardest Job

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• If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

  Robert Bly

  Mom, Love Is, Want

  Robert Bly (2011). “Kabir: Ecstatic Poems”, p.77, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Mom, Effort, Trying

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• Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mom, Simple, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

  Tara Brach

  Mom, Mother, Suffering

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.216, Random House

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• When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mom, Mother, Husband

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• When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

  John Fox

  Mom, Home, Land

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• The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mom, Spiritual, Real

  "Mindful Parenting". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 1998.

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• When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mom, Blessed, Blessing

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• I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mom, Knowing, Advice

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• The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

  Mother Teresa

  Mom, Circles, World

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• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  Katey Sagal

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  Interview with Rachel Bertsche, www.oprah.com. August 17, 2009.

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• 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.

  Martina McBride

  Mom, House, Want

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