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“Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother, and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their
children?; Hear me, four quarters of the world…a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft Earth,
a relative to all that is,…all over the Earth, the faces of living things are all alike.”
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice,
once for herself and once for her child."
"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the
place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens
around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds
of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
"A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking."
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side,
yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Mother’s love is peace.
It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love."
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
"A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved."
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers
kiss and scold together."
"There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell a lot more to being a mother
than most people suspect."
"The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants,
but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best." | 
