Theo the Leo

A mother is ... one who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.
(G.Mermillod)

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It's not what you think that influences your child;
it's what you communicate.
(Charles Stanley)

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When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
(Dr. Joyce Brothers)

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Don't cry over things that were or things that aren't. 
Enjoy what you have now to the fullest.
(Barbara Bush)

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

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I find joy in receiving my children in prayer as gifts from God.
As I do it almost daily, I find that I enhances my appreciation of them and my relationship with them
(Jack Taylor)

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
(Maxim Gorky)

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Don't you see that children are God's best gift?
The fruit of the womb his generous legacy?
(Pslm 127:3 MSG)

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Help me, Father, to remember that discipline makes this family better.
Sometimes it is hard to discipline those we love.
Sometimes it is hard to be the one disciplined.
Help me to realize that discipline now, saves us from heartache later.
Developing good habits through correction and love will ultimately keep our family together.
Amen.

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Family lifts our spirits and sticks with us when times are tough.

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When you were small and just a touch away, I covered you with blankets against the cool night air.
But now that you are tall and out of reach, I fold my hands and cover you with prayer.
(Dona Maddux Cooper)

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Love is everything. It is the key of life, and its influences are those that move the world.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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A mother understands what a child does not say.
(Jweish Proverb)

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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 E. Hunter)

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So much of what we learn of love we learn at home.

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Kids are like sponges: They absorb all your strength and leave you limp.
But give'em a squeeze and you get it all back.

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Lord, help me to step aside loveingly as my child builds a lift of her own.
(Brigitte Weeks)

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Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten ---- a little spring that never quite dries up.
(G. Ruffini)

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It takes wisdom to have a good family, and it takes understanding to make it strong.
(Proverbs 24:3 NCV)

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Motherhood is an art.And it is naive to send a mother into an arena for twenty years with a child and expect her to come out on top.Everything is int he child's favor.
He's little.He's cute and he can turn tears on and off like a faucet.
(Erma Bomeck)

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All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.
(Phoebe Cary)

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Try to see the beauty "in your own backyard", to notice the miracles of everyday life,
to see the specialness of your own children, and to value the treasure of a good marriage.
(Gloria Gaither)

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I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
(3 John 1:4 NIV)

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Spread love everywhere you go:
first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.
(Mother Teresa)

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A mother's love perceives no impossiblilites
(Paddock)

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As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible.
(Ruth Bell Graham)

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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other.
(Frederick W. Robertson)

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The...trouble with cleaning the houses is it gets dirty the next day anyway, 
so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.
(Barbara Bush)

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Moments spent listening, talking, playing, and sharing together may be the most important times of all.
(Gloria Gaither)

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We can change the world inside our own houses.
Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it.
Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.
(Gloria Gaither)

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Where your pleaure is, there is your treasure;
where your treasure, there your heart;
where your heart, there your happiness.
(Augustine)

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Mothers are lots of things ---- doctors, writers, lawyers, gardeners, actresses, cooks,
police officers, sometimes even truck drivers. And mothers. Thank you, Lord.
(Madeleine L'Engle)

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Remember that you are needed.
There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
(Charles Allen)

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Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

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I once asked one of my smaller children what he thought a home was and he replied,
"It's a place where you come in out of the rain."
(GiGi Graham Tchividjian)

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There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.
(Sarah Josepha Hale)

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When we see great men and women, we give credit to their mothers.
(Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

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The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
(Jill Churchill)

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Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.
(C.S. Lewis)

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No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.
(Janette Oke)

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What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
(Jean Illsley Clarke)

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Gratitude.
More aware of what you have than what you don't.
Recognizing the treasure in the simple --- a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset.
Relishing in the comfort of the common --- a warm bed, a hot meal, a clean shirt.
(Max Lucado)

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Encouragement is being a good listener, being positive, letting others know you accept them for who they are. It is offering hope, caring about the feelings of another, understanding.
(Gigi Graham Tchividjian)

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Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

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We must not , in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
(Marian Wright Edelman)

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Life is first gift, love is the second, and understanging the third.
(Marge Piercy)

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When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
(A. O'Malley)

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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds.
Plenty of roses, stars, and sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends --- but only one mother in the whole world.
(Kate Douglas Wiggin)

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
(Lord Chesterfield)