Quotes About Unselfish Mothers

#1. Goodness appears to be both rare and hard to picture. It is perhaps most convincingly met with in simple people - inarticulate, unselfish mothers of large families - but these cases are also the least illuminating.

Iris Murdoch

#2. Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.

Samuel Rogers

#3. We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

Francois Fenelon

#4. Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

Ellen Potter

#5. Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.

Margaret Stohl

#6. Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

John Donne

#7. The men expressed the shock of reading something geared exclusively to the feminine. It stunned them with an awareness of what women experience. They said they'd felt religiously excluded for the first time in their lives.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. I'm addicted to exercise. I love going to the gym, but my absolute favorite is hiking in L.A., particularly Runyon Canyon. It's become my mental and physical salvation.

Jonathan Keltz

#9. IT needs to be running in a proactive digital mode, rather than in a reactive industrial mode.

Pearl Zhu

#10. Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

Boleslaw Prus

#11. To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears
THAT is Christianity!

Watchman Nee