What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
There is?nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.