#rent

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#also #arabia #changed #connecting #different

I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#parental-love #love

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear. ↗

— Sarah L. Cook

#children #parents #life

Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being. ↗

— Claire Fontaine

#motherhood #parenting #inspirational

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population. ↗

— N. Scott Momaday

#parenthood #love

The recent spate of magazines for "parents" (i.e., mothers) bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can (after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant) produce bright, motivated, focused, fun-loving, sensitive, cooperative, confident, contented kids just like the clean, obedient ones on the cover. ↗

— Susan Douglas

#parenting #love

So I entered parenting with only 3 clear goals: to love, to cherish, and to listen." - Melissa Ridge Carter ↗

— Hilary Flower

#love

Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.) ↗

— Chandler Burr

#literature #love #parenting #love

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much. ↗

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

#love

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#parenting #inspirational