Successful Mothers

 "Somehow I know that women who stay home all the time have the most unpleasant homes there are. You give me a woman who thinks about something besides cook stoves and wash tubs and baby flannels, and I'll show you, nine times out of ten, a successful mother."

-Martha Hughes Cannon

Busy Nothings

1. "Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings" 

   
   

   -Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

   
   

Axis of the Soul

"...the stilling of the soul within the activities of the mind and body so that it might be still as the axis of a revolving wheel is still."

Charles Morgan (via Gifts from the Sea)

On Something We Cannot Control

"Our self worth should never be given away or depend on something that we cannot control. It should rest in ourhands and our hearts. When we choose a life and the rituals that have us feeling amazing, we will naturally attract great love. The trick, is to not then give our heart away, but rather, share it."

Mark Groves

Clues

"The final answer, I know, is always inside. But the outside can give a clue, can help one to find the inside answer. One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

Reactions

"How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself."

Eckhart Tolle

It Listens to Brave

"She was never quite ready. But she was brave. And the universe listens to brave."

Rebecca Ray