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Motherhood Quotes
"As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity."
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"Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world."
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"Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot."
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"The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence."
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"The Mother Thing makes our world."
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"I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words."
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"Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters-especially their altruism and devotion-I still don't believe in them. For I know the truth. Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail. That queen is my mother. With unwavering faith I believe in her."
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"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."
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"Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers."
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"Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother."
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"I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha."
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"A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God."
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"A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world."
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"Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit."
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"Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress."
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"It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences."
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"There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother."
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"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
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"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."
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"Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows no one else will."
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"A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling."
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"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
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"What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they're small and to be held by them once they've grown tall. It's empty arms a mother dreads."
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"Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother."
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"She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink."
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"We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks."
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"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
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"A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids."
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"There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving motherShe takes care of you when you are still in her womb.She nurtures you after you are born.She hurts when you fall,She celebrates when you make your first steps.She is the only person who genuinely cares about you.She loves you as she loves herself.Her heart is your true paradise.I love you mama."
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"(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer."
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"Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without."
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