"The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!"

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Mother Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Loss Quotes

“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.”
“All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.”
“I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.”

Source : Song: If drinkin' don't kill me, Album: I Am What I Am
“It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.”

Source : Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.38, Cato Institute
“For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.”
“There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.”
“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.99, Anchor
“Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.”

Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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