How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
