GrowMENA

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

This one night, I was lying in bed, and you moved inside me, like this tiny little butterfly, just fluttering around in there. And all of a sudden, I realized, I just knew, I knew you were mine, you were my baby, and we were gonna be in it together.

North Country

I am aware that I am surrounded by people who feel that they could do the job better. But, for better or worse, the Crown has landed on my head.

Elizabeth II

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

J.R. Rim

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of Life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

Roald Dahl

“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

Lois Lowry

Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.

No, the birthday girl should not be doing the dishes.

'But this isn't fair.'
'I don't have to be fair. I'm your mother.'

All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Rhonda Byrne