short valentines day poems for mom

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~Marche Blumenberg



The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa



Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse. ~Jim Murray, about Earvin Johnson



The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. ~George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career



It's difficult to view the world outside our human context. Staying alive and paying the bills both require our attention squarely fixed on our own business. Our sprawling cities and suburbs are wonderful and frightening tributes to creative self-absorption. In them, we spend our microscheduled days bustling between work and the endless details of our private lives, turning in our moments of rest to the buzzing distractions of television and computers - all accelerating toward some ultimate, unseen fulfillment of convenience and hyperreality. Little encourages us to pause and look around, much less question the end goal of all our busyness. Anything slower than the quick cuts of TV commercials is overwhelmed by our impatience and short attention. Unfortunately, we might be missing something important - to our happiness and to our survival. The purpose of this book is to help remind us. ~From the introduction to The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature & Spirit, edited by Jason Gardner, 1998, New World Library



No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins



If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle



The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. ~Cullen Hightower



Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. ~Author Unknown



Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"



We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley



Don't let the past steal your present. ~Terri Guillemets



The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney



Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ~Sarah Orne Jewett



Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ~John Galsworthy



Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb



A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow



A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food. ~Henny Youngman



Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring. ~Jimmy Carter



Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad. ~P.D. East