We all celebrate Mother's Day in May.

So with these  quotes we wish a Happy Mother's Day to all our Mother, Mom, Mum and Grandma and Granny and Grandmother and the Great-Grandmothers.

 

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper

 

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont

 

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. 
Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul

 

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, 

before Nana came to tidy the room.
"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" 

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." 

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. 

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." 

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" 

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." 

"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled. 

"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.” 
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
 

 

 

“Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. 

Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. 

But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.”


"Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second."




“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives
in you.”–
Frederick Buechner
(Drawing by Kinga Pató, 2014.)

 

 

Some will love you for who you are, 

others will love the mask you wear! 

(Garrett Nickelsen)

 


 

Letters start
with ABC,

number starts
with 123,

music starts
with DO-RE-MI,

Love starts
with you and me!

 

 

 Love

Love is never fearful,
Love is sometimes happy,
Love is always romantic.

Love is never winter,
Love is sometimes spring,
Love is always summer.

Love is never bitter,
Love is sometimes soft,
Love is always sweet.

Love is never difficult,
Love is sometimes normal,
Love is always easy.

Love is never ugly,
Love is sometimes nice,
Love is always beautiful.

Love is never rude,
Love is sometimes hard,
Love is always affectionate.

 

by Noel Sáfár (8.d)