[PAA-Discuss] Happy Mother's Day

[Rick _lux]

I
once heard a profound piece of wisdom from a psychologist who
crystalized for me the essence of being a parent. 




He
said the most important gift a mother can give her son is for him to
really feel unconditional love from her, and it is the father's
greatest gift to teach him and inspire him to be a man.



 And
he said  that the greatest gift a father could give his daughter is
for her to feel his unconditional love and her mother's greatest gift
is to teach her and inspire her to be a woman.



My
mother passed away on the Monday before Mother's Day in 1997,  less
than a  week after moving back to our hometown, and yet she lives on
in my heart today.
I
know the form may change but the essence remains.



And
since I can't thank her in the flesh, but in the spirit, I thought I
would share that spirit of love and gratitude with all you mothers out there because you
are an important woman to me in at least one person's life.



This
weekend I thank my Mother for having made me to feel her
unconditional love, so that I can in turn pass it on, and I would
pass it on to a daughter if I had one.  But since I don't have a
daughter, I decided to pass it on to the women who have been
significant in my life, and you are such a woman, and I honor you for
the love you share with your children.  To you, I wish you a most
fulfilling Mother's day.
Rick




I
have included some quotes about mothers from different people, and
the last two are meant  for mothers. 





	
	
		

	
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of
pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. 
~Tenneva Jordan


A suburban mother's role is to deliver
children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter
De Vries


I remember my mother's prayers and they have
always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life. 
~Abraham Lincoln


Some mothers are kissing mothers and some
are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers
kiss and scold together.  ~Pearl S. Buck


A Freudian
slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ~Author
Unknown


The real religion of the world comes from women
much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key
of our souls in their bosoms.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


The
heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will
always find forgiveness.  ~Honoré de Balzac


All
women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy. 
No man does.  That's his.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of
Being Earnest, 1895


He is a poor son whose sonship does
not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.  ~Harry Emerson
Fosdick


Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls
back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare


An
ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  ~Spanish
Proverb


She never quite leaves her children at home, even
when she doesn't take them along.  ~Margaret Culkin
Banning


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.  ~Sophia Loren, Women and
Beauty


If evolution really works, how come mothers only
have two hands?  ~Milton Berle


Motherhood is
priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or
misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


The sweetest sounds
to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William
Goldsmith Brown


What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow
of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?  ~Thomas
Wentworth Higginson


My mom is a neverending song in my
heart of comfort, happiness, and being.  I may sometimes forget
the words but I always remember the tune.  ~Graycie Harmon


The
formative period for building character for eternity is in the
nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more
potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown


Mother
love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the
impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty


I love my mother as
the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and
reach great heights.  ~Adabella Radici


Mother is one
to whom you hurry when you are troubled.  ~Emily Dickinson


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.  ~Washington Irving



A
mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but
reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. 
~Honoré de Balzac


My mother is a poem
I'll never be
able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my
mother.
~Sharon Doubiago


One good mother is worth a
hundred schoolmasters.  ~George Herbert


There's
nothing like a mama-hug.  ~Adabella Radici


Who fed me
from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And
on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Anne
Taylor


Mother's love is peace.  It need not be
acquired, it need not be deserved.  ~Erich Fromm


Who
ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or
kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor


Mother
- that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. 
~T. DeWitt Talmage


The precursor of the mirror is the
mother's face.  ~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality,
1971


Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of
little children.  ~William Makepeace Thackeray


A
daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family
confederacy, an extension of her self.  And mothers are their
daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the
arbiter of all their relationships.  ~Victoria
Secunda


Mother's love grows by giving.  ~Charles
Lamb


I miss thee, my Mother!  Thy image is still
The
deepest impressed on my heart.
~Eliza Cook


The tie
which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength
as to be never violated.  ~Washington Irving


I cannot
forget my mother.  She is my bridge.  When I needed to get
across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across
safely.  ~Renita Weems


A little girl, asked where her
home was, replied, "where mother is."  ~Keith L.
Brooks



If I was damned of body and soul,
I know
whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother
o'mine.
~Rudyard Kipling


My mother had a slender, small
body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys
found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.  ~Mark
Twain


It's not easy being a mother.  If it were easy,
fathers would do it.  ~From the television show The Golden
Girls


The mother's heart is the child's school-room. 
~Henry Ward Beecher


Women know
The way to rear up
children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of
tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,
And stringing pretty words that
make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words.
~Elizabeth
Barrett Browning


The desolation and terror of, for the
first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and
your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. 
~Francis Thompson


All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe
to my angel Mother.  ~Abraham Lincoln


No painter's
brush, nor poet's pen
In justice to her fame
Has ever reached
half high enough
To write a mother's name.
~Author
Unknown




One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the
stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
The
throne of God, burn through eternity -
Holy - as it was lit and
lent thee here.
~Nathaniel Parker Willis


God could not
be everywhere, so he created mothers.  ~Jewish
Proverb



Because I feel that in the heavens above
The
angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning
tears of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore,
by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than
mother unto me.
~Edgar Allan Poe


The best conversations
with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart
speaks.  ~Carrie Latet 




That
best academy, a mother's knee.  ~James Russell Lowell


A
mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in
them.  ~Victor Hugo






Mama,
don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers (or Marines, Sailors or
Airmen)
Don't
let them fight bankster's wars,  get poisoned, radiated, used up and
thrown on the dust heap of history because war is a racket-Willie
Nelson



Mother,
teach your yourself and your children The Constutution, for posterity
depends on you.  John Adams








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