#other

Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways. ↗

— Roxanne Henke

#money

For that entire journey across the rough terrain of Afghanistan, I never stopped praying that everything of the world could be peaceful, that all lives might return to normal. I believe that wish is universal for every woman who is a mother. For all the horrible happenings that have occurred since I left Afghanistan, I can only think and feel with my mother's heart. For every child lost, a mother's heart harbors the deepest pain. None can see our sons grow to men. None can see our daughters become mothers. No longer can we see the smiles on their faces, or wipe away their tears. My mother's heart feels the pain of every loss, weeping not only for my children, but for the lost children of every mother. ↗

— Najwa bin Laden

#loss #motherhood #peace #terror #men

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. ↗

— Bob Hope

#brothers #dance #grew #how #i

Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn! ↗

— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#grandmothers #sassiness #inspirational

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#compassion #gratitude #helping-others #inspiration #inspirational

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature - that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance - and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth!" "No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly. The Brothers Karamazov Ivan to Alyosha, Book V - Pro and Contra, Chapter 4 - Rebellion ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #religion #suffering #the-brothers-karamazov #theodicy

You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Holland

#mothers #faith

People don't really think other people are the same. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#people #really #same #think

You can't base your life on other people's expectations. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#expectations #life #other #people #you

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#love #motherhood #forgiveness