The hand that rocks the cradle / Is the hand that rules the world.” ~~W. R. Wallace
What is a Mother?
A Mother has so many things to do,
From washing, ironing, cleaning to tying a shoe.
She scrubs, she mends, she cooks and sews,
She bathes the children and washes their clothes.
When they forget to wash their faces clean,
And their clothes are the muddiest you’ve ever seen,
Who repairs the clothes and scrubs them like new?
Of course, that is what a Mother will do.
How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
Paul Walkr
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind, to cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
HUGS
In a wonderful and tender comic strip in the Houston Newspaper called Family Circus a father has one arm around his little daughter named Dollie who is sitting close to him. She says to him, “Sometimes when you hurt inside, the only medicine that’ll help is a great big hug.”
When I first started preaching as a young man in churches of Christ (at least where I was) we never hugged one another, and certainly never gave someone a “holy kiss,” (Romans 16:16).
Time = Life,
Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mahatma Gandhi
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen