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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.

You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts; success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.- Pam Brown

Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.- Richard Bach

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn’t follow, I’d be the one at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honouring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.- William Arthur Ward

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.- Henry David Thoreau

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.

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.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They do not go according to any rules. They are not like wounds or aches, they are more like splits in the skin that will not heal because there is not enough material. – F. Scott Fitzgerald