Quotes for your Mother Blessing,
Pregnancy, Labor, Birth or Baby Shower
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Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
~Maureen Hawkins
"The decision to become a mother is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
"For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest, and most lasting teacher her children have."
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on, each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."
"Birth Factoid Focus"
The day I give birth 300,000 other women around the world will be giving birth as well.
We will all become mothers together
"As you do unto your unborn children, so they will do unto the world"
Thomas Verny, MD
on prenatal psychology
The path of the mother
should be given its deserved
value as a sacred and powerful spiritual path
-Tsultrim Allione
For each of us as women there is a deep place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises ...
Within these deep places, each one holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling
-Audre Lorde
The powerful world of pregnancy holds the joys and the awe of creating a whole new person who will be part of your life indefinitely.
-Joy Gardner
A woman is the full circle, within her is the power -- to create, nurture, and transform
-Diane Mariechild
I have a vision of the Earth made green again through the efforts of children. I can see children of all nations planting trees and hold hands around the globe in celebration of the Earth as their home and all children, all people as their family.
-R. St. Barbe Baker
The wise woman within us remembers our goodness. She speaks to us in our dreams, through the rustling of leaves, the singing of a stream, the aroma of herbs and the call of the whippoorwill. She encourages use to heal our wounds. She asks us to remember our connection to all that is beautiful and sacred. She asks us to remember that we are part of all beauty.
-Deb Soule of Avena Botanicals
Nothing is so beautiful as a ship at full sail, or a woman great with child.
-unknown
waters rising
moon filling me
this vessels holds firm
but is ready to
overflow at any time.
so ready for my baby
to be born
Aviva Jill Romm, Natural Pregnancy Book
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