Mom Quotes - Page 81

The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.

From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

I used to say to my dad, 'How did you and Mom stay married for all this time?' and he'd say, 'Two things. Number one: You gotta have the same dreams. One person can't be daydreaming about walking down the street in Paris, the other person want to work in a coal mine. Number two: We never wanted to get divorced at the same time.'

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

I was a cute baby. My mom said when I was born they threw away the mold. Some of it grew back.

The art of life is to live in the present moment

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

I do not honestly know what is really happening in Libya at the moment but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family.

Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.