Daily Inspiration for Mothers

"...how many exquisite, glorious dreams sent to heal the world has Heaven mourned because the dreamer, weary and discouraged relied only on her own strength and could do no more?" - Sarah Ban breathnach Affirmations: Every day moves me closer towards my dream

" I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman Affirmation: Mothering affords me experiences that I would otherwise never have.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be - Oprah Affirmation: I like the person I am becoming

If we're really honest with ourselves, there are probably times we think What possible use can I be in this world? What need is there for somebody like me to fill? That's one of the deeper mysteries, and then God's grace comes to us in the form of another person who tells us we have been of help, and what a blessing that is. - Mister Rogers Affirmation: As a mother I make a difference to others every day

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are - Amy Bloom Affirmation: I can be myself with my children. I am loved just as I am.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances but as confirmations of fortitude - Oprah Affirmation: I can overcome my challenges. I am strong.

If you are a woman between the ages of 20 and 40 living anywhere on the globe, you are part of the most educated, professionally empowered, international generation of women ever. It's an inspiring story in a world full of violence and insecurity - a generation of women poised to take the reins of global leadership like no other generation in history - Paula Goldman Affirmation: I am grateful for all the many blessings in my life.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it - Maya Angelou Affirmation: I love being a mother. I am doing a good job. I am getting better all the time.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living - C. G. Jung Affirmation: When I make time to be alone and go within I come back out into the world a better person and mother.

With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Affirmation: As I grow older my life becomes richer and deeper.

If you can't pay for it now, you can't afford it - Dave Ramsey Affirmation: I live within my means. The way I spend my money is a true reflection of my financial situation.

1.  If you had all the money you needed, what would you do? 2.  If you discovered you had only five or ten years left to life, what would you do with your life? 3.  If you had only 24 hours left, who did you not get to be? What edid you not get to do?   - George Kinder Affirmation: I know what is important and meaningful to me. I live from my inner core of passion.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt Affirmation: I give generously without fear of lack.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. - Oprah Affirmation: I nurture my inner qualities and those around me feel the benefit.

To trust that we have the guidance we need and the potential to use our imaginations to modify our reality is to trust in spirit. The ability to create magic out of the ordinary, to feel a connection to all of life, and to make each day a new beginning enriches the soul. Parenting and living life in this way is a richer, vaster, more bountiful reality than we may have ever thought possible. - Mimi Doe Affirmation: I trust in a higher power to guide my parenting

Being a spiritual parent won't guarantee your kids will never fight, you will never lose your temper, or things won't fall apart. But being grounded by a spiritual awareness, a belief in the Divine, helps children and parents alike approach these negative experiences in a new way. - Mimi Doe Affirmation: My difficulties make me stronger. My mistakes make me wiser.

What if you were told you had a sacred contract to help your child unfold into his full spiritual self?  - Mimi Doe Affirmation: There is a plan and I am being led. I let my child know that there is a plan for him and he is being led.

The ordinary becomes the extraordinary when we live life as a prayer, a soulful journey, when we endow our daily routine with magic, when we stop the chaos of daily life and celebrate the small moments. - Mimi Doe Affirmation: I notice the magic of the small moments and share it with my children

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a puzzle to be solved. Affirmation: I see through my child's eyes a world of mystery and wonder.

Personal power is believing that there is a blessing or a lesson in being who you are and doing what you are doing at any moment in time. Affirmation: I am on a journey and where I am is ok It's all working out perfectly

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom - Octavio Paz Affirmation: I lovingly guide and direct my child on the path he choses.

“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!” - Richard Bach Affirmation: There is always hope. The Universe looks after me.

Some things need improving. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation: I am open to change and improvement I am doing my best and my best changes from moment to moment

We die to habits of need, dependency and control, to be reborn in reliance on Spirit - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation: I let go and go with the flow

The father is the sun. The mother is the moon. And the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night. - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Affirmation: I fill my child with love and light

I bargained with life for a penny and life would pay no more, however I begged at evening when I counted my scanty store. For life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid - Anon. Affirmation: I relax knowing that my needs are met. Abundance flows through my life.

  You are a creative center, from which increase is given off to all - Wallace D Wattles     Affirmation: My optimism and enthusiasm for life creates optimism and resilience in my child

There's a place deep inside every single one of our hearts that knows all the answers to our biggest questions - R. Sharma Affirmation: I look within for guidance on my parenting. All the answers are inside.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands - Richard Bach Affirmation: I see my child's problem as an experience for learning and growth

You cannot be loving when you are blaming You cannot be loving when you are cricising You cannot be loving when you are judging - Oprah     Affirmation: My thoughts and words encourage, uplift and praise my child

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson Affirmation: Each new day is a new opportunity to start afresh

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique. - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Affirmation: I rejoice in the ordinary miracles of the day  

  No, my soul is not asleep - Antonio Machado   It is awake, wide awake.   It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,   its eyes wide open,   far-off things, and listens   at the shores of the great silence.       Affirmation: I could see peace instead of this  

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Out task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert Einstein Affirmation: I see every human being as someone's child and treat them as such

Rather than seeing a child's behaviour as the fault of a parent and therefore blaming the parents, if we could just see that children have definite behaviour tendencies from past lives and are drawn to a particular parent or parents who have unique strengths, understanding and ability to guide them. The parents' inner attitude can then change from one of embarrassment and failure to feeling that they have been blessed by God in receiving a 'challenging' child - Joyce & Barry Vissell, Models of Love Affirmation: I am the perfect parent for my child

When people point out stuff about yourself that makes you upset or angry consider yourself blessed that the spirit of life is bringing these things to your attention - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation: My anger is a blessing that shows me what I need to work on next

Baptism comes from the Jewish tradition. For the jewish people, the heart was the centre of all the emotions...The prayer intends that the new child will never become trapped, caught or entangled in false inner networks of negativity, resentment, or destruction towards itself. The blessings also intend that the child will have a fluency of feeling in its life, that its feeling may flow freely and carry its soul out to the world and gather from the world delight and peace. - John O'Donohue, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World Affirmation: I gather delight and peace from the world and from my children I am positive, forgiving and constructive especially regarding my children

Every living being has the capacity to do what they need to do when they are ready to do it - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation: My changes are easy and effortless

It doesn't much matter whether you're a billionaire or you work in the cornershop. It doesn't matter if you are good-looking, educated, famous or unknown. You are here in this life to learn how to love, and that's all. You have always known this. - Sharon Biddulph Affirmation: I speak positively to my spouse, and listen with compassion. 

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II Affirmation:  I am the most important influence in my child's life  

You and your child are together for a reason - Mimi Doe Affirmation:  I enjoy the time with my child

"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us."  - Morikei Veshiba Affirmation:  My words speak only of health, happiness and prosperity

What will our children do in the morning? Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play, the way wings should? - Rumi Affirmation:  I make a difference in the world...one child at a time

May the road rise to meet you, And the sun stand at your shoulder. May the wind be always at your back, and the rains fall softly upon your fields. May life itself befriend you Each day, each night, Each step of your journey. (Annon. Irish Blessing) Affirmation:  I nurture myself first so that I can nurture others

What might my life be like were I to give in to the rhythms of my own ragged dance? —Susan Hanson Affirmation:  I listen to the heart of my child

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."  - Kahlil Gibran Affirmation:  I am exactly what my child needs

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.  - Jack Kerouac, On The Road Affirmation:  I have peace of mind whatever is going on around me

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older...The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story. —Diane Sawyer   Affirmation:  I am the best mother I can be. I get better every day.