"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible"

-- Tillie Olsen

#Mean Quotes #Motherhood Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?”

Source : Song: Check Yes Or No
“Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.”
“Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.”
“Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their childrenof either gender to feel free and whole. But weak women, women who feel and act like victims of something or other, may make their children feel responsible for taking care of them, and they can carry their children down with them.”
“I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.”
“Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.”

Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.2, Bantam
“There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.”
“The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.”

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