Pope Paul VI Quotes

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it's this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It's a primal relationship.

Everything I do is for my children.

I am a simple, ordinary mother.

Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

I'm a mom. I live for my daughters.

God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.

I put my son's nutritional needs first, and existed on pasta and thin air more times than I would dare to admit.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

When I had my son, it was the worst day and the best day of my life because I realized that I will never love someone so much, but I will never be able to keep him from the lessons that he's meant to learn, in this lifetime.

It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.