A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
~ Cardinal Mermillod

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
~ Marianne Williamson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
~ Helen Keller

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
~ Virginia Woolf

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
~ August Wilson

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May Alcott

I am the pool of blue that worships the vivid sky
~ Sara Teasdale

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
~ Mildred B. Vermont

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
~ Marion C. Garretty

The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.
~ Carrie Latet

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~ Honoré de Balzac

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
~ Mother Teresa

Do not look back, do not look at others, follow that flame which burns inside yourself. Dare, take risks, and there is nothing you will regret.
~ Shanti

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
~ Charles H. Perkhurst

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert Einstein

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
~ Robert Frost

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
~ Confucius

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~ Carl Jung

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
~ Louis L'Amour

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
~ Confucius

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
~Juan Ramon Jimenez

The obstacle is the path.
~Zen Proverb

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it... Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.
~The Buddha

Cognition is a delusion and noncognition is senseless. If you want to reach the true path beyond doubt, place yourself in the same freedom as sky. You name it neither good nor not-good.
~Nansen

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
~Zen proverb

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~Andre Gide

One step A hundred crickets Jump
~Jerry A. Levy

When you are thankful you focus your energy on the present moment-where it is the greatest. You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
~Jon Gordon

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother... was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage... a kind of mad courage.
~Robert Fulghum

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
~Author Unknown

Strengthening the mind is not done by making it move around as is done to strengthen the body, but by bringing the mind to a halt, bringing it to rest.
~No Ajahn Chah

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath
followed by another.
~Oprah Winfrey

A mother who gives herself completely to her infant meets herself in the dark and finds fulfillment.
In the hours between midnight and dawn, she crosses the threshold of self-concern and discovers a Self that has no limits.
~Vimala McClure, The Tao of Motherhood

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh