The Muddle in the Middle: Two great quotes

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Two great quotes

Here are two of my favorite quotes from the year:

Often the greatest service to others is one-on-one. It need not be on a grand scale, and it is noblest within the family.
--President James E. Faust

You just have to muddle...You don't have to handle everything that comes your way. There is no rule book somewhere that says all good people must go around handling everything.
--Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

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Motherhood favorite quotes

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.

--William A. Galvin

The walks and talks we have with our two-year-olds in red boots have a great deal to do with the values they will cherish as adults.

--Edith F. Hunter

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

--Peter De Vries

She broke the bread into two fragments and gave them to the children, who ate with avidity. "She hath kept none for herself," grumbled the Sergeant.

"Because she is not hungry," said a soldier.

"Because she is a mother," said the Sargeant.

--Victor Hugo

There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You give up yourself, and finally you don't even mind. I wouldn't have missed this for anything. It humbled my ego and stretched my soul. It gave me whatever crumbs of wisdom I possess today.

--Erica Jong

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

--Tenneva Jordan

There are so many disciplines in being a parent besides the obvious ones like getting up in the night and putting up with noise during the day. And almost the hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain, to show them we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

--Nan fairbrother

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

--Kate Samperi

Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

--Elizabeth Stone

If you are reverent and prayerful and obedient, the day will come when there will be revealed to you why the God of heaven has commanded us to address him as Father, and the Lord of the Universe as Son. Then you will have discovered the Pearl of Great Price spoken of in the scriptures and willingly go and sell all that you have that you might obtain it

--Boyd K. Packer, The Shield of Faith, Ensign, May 1995