maternal happiness Quotes

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

A stable and happy mum leads to stable and happy kids. It all has a knock-on effect.

It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.