Mom Quotes - Page 53

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.

You do have great love within you at this very moment.

Take a moment to gather your thoughts about your situation and ask, "What would Love do?" Then channel that energy in your words and actions.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn’t a very attractive woman for her age.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.