Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Finish every day and be done with it.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.
My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy the simple things. She loves to jump on the couch with her favorite toys and roll around while I clap my hands.
We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.
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