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#1

“What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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#2

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

tags: joy, rumi, sorrow, transformation

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#3

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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#4

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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#5

“I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view because deep down you know you can’t win. It’s better to assert yourself and tell the person you are moving on without them and why, rather than leave a lasting impression of cowardness on your part in a person’s mind by avoiding them.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#6

“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

tags: evil

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#7

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society

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#8

“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
― Debra Ginsberg

tags: autism, children, motherhood, mothers, parenthood, parenting, parents

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#9

“I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

tags: children, family, fear, motherhood, motherhood-quotes

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#10

“In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: motherhood, women-s-strength

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#11

“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

tags: motherhood

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#12

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: bravery, coming-of-age, dreams, exploring, feminine, feminine-beauty, feminine-principle, feminine-transitions, femininity, feminism, growing-up, inspirational-life, life-choices, novel-quotes, payne, queen, quotes-from-novels, roman-payne, travel, traveling-alone, voyage, wanderess, womanhood

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#13

“Daughter, I want you to form the most intense, loving relationship with yourself. Only then will you realize your capacity for kindness and emotional expansiveness. Daughter, after you have formed this relationship with yourself, I want you to love others with the openness and humility that you always embodied as a child. Daughter, I want you to forgive easily, laugh loudly and never allow yourself to become the invisible, silent woman that your mother was. Daughter, this is how we soften our hearts and become better human beings.”
― Diriye Osman

tags: inspiration, inspirational-quotes, mothers-and-daughters

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#14

“Why don’t you want to see your mom? Did she burn your
dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?”

“She wants to run my life,” I explain.

“What a bitch. It’s like she thinks she’s your mother
or something.”

“She’s a psychopath,” I said. “It’s complicated.”

“Psychopaths can’t afford fur coats.”

“This one can.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: angry-teen, mothers-and-daughters, teens-on-parents

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#15

“I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully absorb the impact this new title would have on my life.”
― Diana Mankin Phelps, A Mother s Side of War

tags: aaron-mankin, military, mothers, sons, war, warriors, wounded-warriors

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#16

“And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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#17

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
― Mary Oliver

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#18

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
― Stephen King

tags: motherhood, mothers

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#19

“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.”
― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions for a Vibrant Marriage

tags: children, children-s-feelings, choices, christlike, christlike-behavior, coparenting, dad, families-are-forever, fathers, honesty, honor, honorable, kindness, love, mom, mothers, positive-choices, positive-living, positive-outlooks, respect, respectable, respecting-others, staying-positive, thoughtful, thoughtlessness, unconditional-love

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#20

“From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gives you life
Shows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.
And from seed to dust
There is ONE soul above all others --
That you must always show patience, respect, and trust
And this woman is your mother.
And when your soul departs your body
And your deeds are weighed against the feather
There is only one soul who can save yours
And this woman is your mother.
And when the heart of the universe
Asks her hair and mind,
Whether you were gentle and kind to her
Her heart will be forced to remain silent
And her hair will speak freely as a separate entity,
Very much like the seaweed in the sea --
It will reveal all that it has heard and seen.

This woman whose heart has seen yours,
First before anybody else in the world,
And whose womb had opened the door
For your eyes to experience light and more --
Is your very own MOTHER.
So, no matter whether your mother has been cruel,
Manipulative, abusive, mentally sick, or simply childish
How you treat her is the ultimate test.
If she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right way
With simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness.
And always remember,
That the queen in the Creator's kingdom,
Who sits on the throne of all existence,
Is exactly the same as in yours.
And her name is,
THE DIVINE MOTHER.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: abusive, beauty, birth, cherish, childish, children, creation, divine, divine-mother, dust, eulogy, eulogy-mother, existence, feather, female, feminism, fertility, gentle, goddess, grandmother, hair, heart, hearts, kindness, kingdom, life, loss-of-mother, matriarch, mind, mom, mommy, mother, mother-earth, mother-poem, mother-poetry, motherhood, mothering, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-love, mothers-poem, name, parents, poem, poetry, pregnancy, queen, royalty, seaweed, seed, silent, sisters, soul, suzy-kassem, thighs, treasure, treatment, universe, value, woman, woman-power, woman-rights, womanhood, women

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#21

“A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: after-marriage, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-proverb, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, boy, daughter, family, girl, husband, in-laws, inspirational-quotes, love, matrimony, mom, mother, mother-in-law, motivational-quotes, mummy, philosophy, promise, relations, wedding-marriage, wife, wisdom

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#22

“If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.”
― Dorothy Day

tags: motherhood

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#23

“The Voice

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: books, inner-voice, leaders, parents, right, teachers, true-to-self, wring

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#24

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self

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#25

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: beauty, diversity, parents, strength, young-people

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