Mom Quotes - Page 127

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

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

The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

I keep going back to foundation, heritage cooking techniques from my family in Naples and Abruzzi. There are a lot of traditional dishes from those regions that I want to educate my kids' palates about, to pass down that heritage and that lineage. I think my mom would have been pleasantly surprised and absolutely thrilled to have seen all the cookbooks and all the restaurants and all the television I've done.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

That's how people make sense of a meeting: they eat something. If they were in a sad moment it would be the same thing, they'd be eating something. It's what makes life fun. We don't need it to be delicious or great or all these things if we're just to survive. But it's one of those things that makes life fun, livable. And the more I submerge myself in it, the more fun I seem to have.

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular embarrassing old mom.

I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.

My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.

A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that is. In this choicelessness you will be in the middle. The moment you choose, you choose some extreme. The moment you choose, you choose against something; otherwise there is no question of choice. Being in a choiceless awareness is another meaning of being in the middle.