Mom Quotes - Page 37

The moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies." "We're all going to want cookies if the world comes to an end," Mrs. Nesbitt agreed. "And chips and pretzels. If the world is coming to an end, why should I care about my blood pressure?" "Okay, we'll die fat," Mom said.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you.

For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I don't even have a moment where I felt like I wanted to give up

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

And at any moment it all ends with a heartbeat…just one heartbeat, and there’s no more time. One heartbeat and the chance to be saved is gone. One heartbeat and there’s no more choosing—it’s all sealed for eternal life or eternal death.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves are not bone-dry. Moms are the middle of the flow chart; the arrows of exertion flow constantly out from us, but when no arrows of strength, grace, and peace are flowing in, the whole mechanism is in danger. Goodness in equals goodness out.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.