Inspirational quotes from mom

As I get a little older each moment and I reflect on my relationship with my mother I can’t help to think that (even when I don’t want to admit to it), she was right a bout a few things, like; everything happens for a reason, when one door closes another opens, time heals and there are more fish in the sea. At the time when my heart was breaking at sixteen, I didn’t want to hear that I would love someone else, when I vowed to love that one guy for the rest of my life. My mother would tell me she went through the same heart aches, but I couldn’t imagine my mother crying over a girlish crush. But now, I am fully aware that if she didn’t experience the pain of losing a first love then she wouldn’t be able to tell me that I would be okay.

When I moved away from home I found myself calling my mother for more advise on how to cook a turkey, why I couldn’t do whites and colors in the same laundry (I have a few pink shirts now), and the big one was when I was breaking up with someone, I knew she’d always be on the other end telling me that I was special and that the guy was losing out on the most special person he’d ever meet. Even if I didn’t like that she was right, it felt and still feels good to have that one bond with my mother that I can complain to her about everything but her, many relationships with mothers is a compromise and I wanted to share some quotes from a calendar that my mother gives me each for Christmas to remind that I am still her little girl. The quotes are not just for daughters, they are for everyone, to remind us that we were once little girls and little boys to our parents, and still are.

A mother’s treasure is her daughter ~ Catherine Pulsifer

Life’s aspirations come in the guise of children ~ Rabindranath Tagore

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family ~ Lee lacocca

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.

Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal ~ Pamela Vaull Starr

At 15 life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was a honorable as resistance,especially if one had not choice ~ Maya Angelou

Life is a long lesson in humility ~  Sire James M. Barrie

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart  ~ Jane Austen

If one has determination, then things will get done ~ Chinese Proverb

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us ~ Marcel Proust

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy ~ John Mason

It’s very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice ~ Anne Taylor

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting.

A constant longing for another time. Another Season. ~ Sonia Sanchez

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves ~ William Hazlitt

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted ~ Aesop

‘Home’ is any four walls that enclose the right person ~ Helen Rowland

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love ~ Jane Austen

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up ~  Pablo Picasso

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved ~ D.H. Lawrence

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.

~ Marcus A. Antoninus

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is to you ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No wonder it’s so difficult to raise children properly-they are always imitating their parents ~ Anonymous

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give ~ Sir Winston Churchill

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers ~ Bern Williams