"Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to the swim meet, or a mom takes your kid off to the movies while you're sick with the flu. And the next week after baseball you have all the kids sleep over. Not to mention the friend with whom you freely have the throw-your-hands-in-the-air-I-surrender discussions of how to manage any of it."

-- Victoria Redel

#Mom Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Of troubles know I none,Of pleasures know I many -I rove beneath the sunWithout a single penny.”
“When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, Heâ€™s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that personâ€™s life. You must learn to follow that love. Donâ€™t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.”
“It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.”
“For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.
“The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.”
“If we could read minds, we wouldn't need headsets.”
“We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.”
“If a martian were to land on earth now and be told that the best batsman in the world was playing in this match, he would think it was Rahul Dravid and not Sachin Tendulkar.”

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