9 Quotes About Maternal Love

As parents, we want to be the best we can be for our children. We want to show them the way, teach them how to live and handle life. But there is always that one stage in our children's lives when we, as parents, fail. The stage when they grow up and leave home Read more

When they say the "I don't have a mom or dad" line. When they refuse to talk to us any longer. When they stop visiting us at all.

When they ignore our calls and texts. When they start to watch TV instead of hanging out with us. When they start ignoring us too much and then start talking about them being "sick".

These are all difficult times that require strong support from friends and family members. In other words, when your child starts acting strange due to them being away from you, these are intense times that require strong support from friends and family members.

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my...
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I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life. Kamand Kojouri
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The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child. Kiran Manral
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I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home. Diyar Harraz
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Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments. ~ Ananya Mehta Kirtida Gautam
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We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept. The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the erotic drive of our nature is transformed into a personal relation when there arises in the space of the Other the first signifier of desire: the maternal presence. The subject is born with love's first leap of joy. . Christos Yannaras
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...if I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong. Mordecai Richler
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Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be a song for women to sing at this moment, or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name the moment. Anita Diamant
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I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me. Diyar Harraz