Daily Inspiration for Mothers

"There are no such things as coincidences or accidents. Look for the meaning in your synchronistic encounters."  - Caroline Myss Affirmation: Everything happens for a reason

"Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time"  - Marian Wright Edelman Affirmation: When I serve through mothering I am fulfilling my life's purpose

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."  - Albert Einstein Affirmation: Being a mother and raising my children allows me to see miracles around me every day

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."  - Beorge Bernard Shaw Affirmation: I look for opportunities to serve in the world outside as well as in my family

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realised it sooner."  - Colette Just for Today - affirm: I allow my child to learn from life's difficulties

" I love people. I love my family, my children...but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."  - Pearl S Buck   Just for Today - tell yourself:   I let my child feel all of his feelings  

" We should say to each...(child)...'Do you know what you are? You are a marvel, You are unique. In all the years that have passed there has never been another child like you.'" - Pable Casal Just for Today - tell yourself: I listen to the heart of my child

"To sing with the voice of angels as we do the work of angels. To laugh with the laugh of Buddha as we go to our awakening. To extend the arms of Jesus to welcome the presence of children and let them climb into our hearts." - Hugh Prather Just for today tell yourself: I am an inspiring role model to my children

" I will love you and cherish you, and enjoy you deeply that it will be as if God gave you to me and said 'Please take care of my beloved child'."  - Hugh Prather Just for today, tell yourself: I have peace of mind whatever is going on around me

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou Affirmation: Everything that happens in my life is for the best. There is a blessing or a lesson in everything that happens.  

" Today realize that Spirit has no hands, head, or heart like yours. No other woman on earth can do what you alone are called to do, can give to the world what you alone were sent to give through your authentic gifts." - Sarah San Breathnach Affirmations: I have something to offer the world. I am here for a reason.

"Each of us was created to give outward expression to Divinity through our personal gifts. Sharing our gifts with the world is our Great Work, no matter what our job description might be or how our resume reads." - Sarah Ban Breathnach Affirmation: My work is mothering. My work is my joy.

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. —Roald Dahl   Affirmation: I am an inspiring role model to my children

Personal power is knowing that you are OK just as you are Affirmation:  I love my child even when we differ

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.  - Anne Bradstreet Affirmation:  From this experience only good will come to my child

"Awaken the voice of your spirit Dance to the music in your heart Listen to the wisdom of your soul Remember to dream." - Anon Affirmation:  My child is living their life's purpose

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world - CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl   Affirmation: If this is the highest good for my child and the world it will happen

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. - FRED G. GOSMAN, How to Be a Happy Parent ... In Spite of Your Children Affirmation:  I allow my child to learn from life's difficulties

"When you resist the tendency to control your children, you will be the parent that every child needs." - Iyanla Vanzant Affirmation:  I allow my child to be whoever s/he is in her/his heart

" Our children are indeed our teachers. They mirror back to us our behaviour, perceptions and beliefs." - Morgan Simone Daleo Affirmation:  I am doing my best

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. - Marilyn French Affirmation: I am my child's lifelong teacher

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, t o loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."  - Dawna Markova Affirmation:  I make a difference

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."  - William Ellery Channing Affirmation: I have all that I need

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson Affirmation:  I love myself just the way I am.

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Affirmation: It is my birthright to be fully supported in the fulfillment of my needs and desires.

“Oh, I love I love I love! I cried inside myself. So many people, so many things! Music and stars and snow and weather! Oh, if one could always feel this warm love, this excitement, this glory of the infinite possibilities of life!”  - Madeleine L'Engle from Camilla. Affirmation:  I am so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind

"Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." - Henry Van Dyke Affirmation: My life is abundant and beautiful

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. - Isak Dinesen Affirmation:  I let my child grow and learn in her/his own way

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. - Montaigne Affirmation: I deserve the best. All good things are coming to me

“If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?”  - Abdul-Baha Affirmation: I open myself to all good

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change." - Thich Nhat Hanh ( Vietnamese Zen Master and Spiritual Leader) Affirmation:  My children are doing their best

I may not be able to say Mass or meditate today, but I can make a meal. - Sarah Ban Breathnach Affirmation:  I am the still point at the center of my child's world

"...we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it..." - Sarah Ban Breathnach Affirmation:  The whole world is on my side and wants me to succeed

There are two ways of meeting difficulties; you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. —Phyllis Bottome   Affirmation: I am lead by the spirit within me

"Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light." - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach   Affirmation: I am fulfilling the greatest calling in the universe

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are. - Pema Chodron   Affirmation: I see the best in everyone.

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. "  - Melody Beattie DAILY AFFIRMATION: I trust the process of life to take care of me

"All I ask you to do today is to open "the eyes of your eyes" and give your life another glance. Are your basic needs met? Do you have a home? Food on the table? Clothes to wear? Is there a regular paycheck coming in? Do you have dreams? Do you have your health? Can you walk, talk, see the beauty that surrounds you, listen to music that stirs your soul or makes your feet want to boogie? Do you have family and friends whom you love and who love you? Then pause for a moment and give thanks. Let your heart awaken to the transforming power of gratefulness. Be open to exchanging your need for emotional and financial security for serenity."  - Sarah Ban Breathnach DAILY AFFIRMATION: My life is wonderful and I am grateful for all I have

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."  - author unknown Daily Affirmation: I am doing the work of spirit here on earth

"The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost."  - G K Chesterton Daily Affirmation: I enjoy my child's company

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."  - Alexander Woollcott Daily Affirmation: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise my beloved child

" Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."  - Howard Thurman Daily Affirmation: I possess the ability to lead and inspire

"Your relationship with your spouse, your children, and others will flourish when you say 'yes' to what is."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: All is well in my world

"Is anything more important that loving another human being so that they know it without a doubt?"  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I serve the greater good

"Loving a child is being on his side regardless of any impression we make on others."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I love growing with my child

Children need models more than they need critics. - JOSEPH JOUBERT, Pensées Affirmation:  I am a great role model for my children.

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson Affirmation:  I see the sunny side of everything

A child wants nothing but complete acdeptance form his parents. When he has had his fill of that, he will move onto other things. - Deborah Jackson. Affirmation: I accept my child exactly as s/he is

"...care for your child rather than for your image or for your parents."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I stand up for what is important to me

"Find out which of your thoughts causes you pain and which ones enhance your ability to love and to live with your child."  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I am a confident mother

" Will he really never learn to help? Do you really believe that he will stay in diapers? Never learn manners? Won't learn to read...unless you coerce him to do it now?"  - Naomi Aldort Daily Affirmation: I love and accept myself exactly as I am I love and accept my child exactly as she is