Jenna Morasca Quotes

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there's no ideal - a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.

As women, I think we give so much of ourselves.

I'm so proud of my mom and I admire her faith and especially strength. In everything that she's gone through she's really been there for me, and that's incredible.

My sister was the glamourous one and her movies portrayed her beauty and glamour. As a person, she has enormous patience and has single-handedly supported my mother and my siblings. I have always admired her loyalty to the family.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.