50 Inspirational Mom Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"Motherhood is a choice you make every day to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is, … and to forgive yourself over and over again for doing everything wrong."

- Donna Ball

"Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. … To have been loved so deeply … will give us some protection forever."

- J. K. Rowling

"Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother’s love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child’s trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child’s special talents and unique capacities."

- Richard G. Scott

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

- Agatha Christie

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"We are born of love; Love is our mother."

- Rumi

"There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light."

- Jodi Picoult

"Don’t wait until everything is just right [..] There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger…"

- Mark Victor Hansen

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

- Cardinal Mermillod

"If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period."

- Rosie Pope

"No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love."

- Edwin Chapin

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."

- Marion C. Garretty

"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"All I am I owe to my mother."

- George Washington

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

"Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."

- Princess Diana

"A good mom has bad days & great days & normal days & overwhelming days & perfect days & trying days & supermom days & just being a mom days & a whole lot of love & real & crazy motherhood days."

- Rachel Marie Martin

"The golden rule of parenting is to always show your children the kind of person you want them to be."

- Elizabeth Roxas

"Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first."

- Matthew L. Jacobson

"This struggle is real. The juggle is real. That’s why everyone should hire working mothers. They are put in crazy situations all the time and are forced to problem-solve. They are some of my most resourceful employees."

- Sara Blakely

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had."

- Linda Wooten

"I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible – oh, this impossible.’ And then you just keep going, and you sort of do the impossible."

- Tina Fey

"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed, to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."

- Ariana Huffington

"Get rid of the guilt. When you’re at one place, don’t feel bad that you’re not at work. When you’re at work, don’t feel bad that you’re not at home."

- Katie Couric

"Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary — it’s an act of infinite optimism."

- Gilda Radner

"Being a mom means choosing to show up day after day and love day after day and give day after day and try day after day and not having all the answers and not being perfect but simply doing your best."

- Rachel Martin

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle indeed. Such an incredible blessing."

- Jennie Finch

"To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

- Barbara Johnson

"A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

"My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled."

- Carly Fiorina

"There is no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred."

- Brene Brown

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us, when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

- Washington Irving

"The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother’s prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children."

- George W. Bush

"There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed, but in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom."

- Stephanie Precourt

"There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children."

- Marianne Williamson

"It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself."

- Joyce Maynard

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed."

- Linda Wooten

"Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment."

- Jessalyn Gilsig

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation."

- James E. Faust

"Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in, it is what God gave you time for."

- Rachel JanKovic

"Mothers and children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving."

- Gail Tsukiyama

"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."

- Erma Bombeck

"A mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

- Erich Fromm

"The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother."

- Russell M. Nelson

"A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do."

- Jeffrey R. Holland

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will find forgiveness."

- Honore de Balzac

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

- Jewish Proverb

"Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me."

- Lady Gaga

"A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me."

- Kristin Hannah

"Right in the difficult, we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have."

- Joan Ryan

"Your words as a parent have great power. Use them wisely and make sure they come from the heart."

- Carolina King

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

- Rumi

"A child seldom needs a good talking to as much as a good listening to."

- Robert Brault

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When we practice loving-kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit."

- Rumi

"There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child."

- Anne Lamott

"A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."

- Marion C. Garretty

"A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man."

- Jamie McGuire

"Children do not need us to shape them; they need us to respond to who they are."

- Naomi Aldort

"You must first teach a child he is loved. Only then is he ready to learn everything else."

- Amanda Morgan

"Speak with your children as if are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become."

- Brooke Hampton

"It’s time we stop buying the lie that we need to be hard on kids because ‘the world is hard.” Love them as hard as you can. That’s what they need."

- Tara Vogler

"If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, they cannot learn from you."

- Lori Petro

"Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?"

- Jane Nelson

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

- L.R. Knost

"The way we talk to children becomes their inner voice."

- Peggy O’ Mara

"It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

- Joyce Maynard

"What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love."

- Nicholas Sparks

"The real questions for parents should be: “Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?” If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn’t exist, and I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults."

- Brene Brown

"The question isn’t so much “Are you parenting the right way?” as it is: “Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”"

- Brene Brown

"Have we created a space in our families where our kids know that they belong. Where there are no prerequisites for worthiness, you don’t have to hustle here for me to believe you’re worthy of loving. You don’t have to perform here for me to think that you belong here. You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to get a certain grade on your test. You don’t have to hit so many home-runs. You belong here."

- Brené Brown

"The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means you already are one."

- Jodi Picoult

"Successful mothers are not the ones who have never struggled. They are the ones who never gave up despite the struggles."

- Sharon Jaynes

"I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love."

- Viola Davis

"The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"It’s not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."

- Ann Landers

"Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. A mother who doesn’t fret over failings and slights, who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts, the continuous chattering and judgment of a too-busy mind. A mother who doesn’t worry so much about being bad or good but just recognizes that she’s both, and neither. A mother who does her best, and for whom that is good enough, even if, in the end, her best turns out to be, simply, not bad."

- Ayelet Waldman

"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

- Bette Davis

"Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay."

- Jojo Moyes

"When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

- Mitch Albom

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."

- Maya Angelou

"Effective discipline means that we’re not only stopping a bad behavior or promoting a good one, but also teaching skills and nurturing the connections in our children’s brains that will help them make better decisions and handle themselves well in the future."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"As parents, we are wired to try to save our children from any harm and hurt, but ultimately we can’t. They’ll fall down, they’ll get their feelings hurt, and they’ll get scared and sad and angry. Actually, it’s often these difficult experiences that allow them to grow and learn about the world. Rather than trying to shelter our children from life’s inevitable difficulties, we can help them integrate those experiences into their understanding of the world and learn from them."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting."

- Brene Brown

"Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own."

- Brene Brown

"So often, when we feel lost, adrift in our lives, our first instinct is to look out into the distance to find the nearest shore. But that shore, that solid ground, is within us. The anchor we are searching for is connection, and it is internal."

- Brene Brown

"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is."

- Fred Rogers

"So often, children are punished for being human. They are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes. Yet, we adults have them all the time. None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves."

- Rebecca Eanes

"By loving them for more than their abilities, we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments."

- Eileen Kennedy-Moore

"Trust children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we should not be trusted."

- John Holt

"Too much love never spoils our children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence."

- Anthony Withman

"When I had my children and I felt that type of love, which I know you understand and every mom out there understands, it made me understand that there was a purity to love. That there is an unconditional love."

- Jennifer Lopez

"My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything."

- Emma Stone

"I try to call my mother with more regularity because I think, what if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point."

- Julia Roberts

"Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"I don’t think empathy is something you can drill in someone’s head. You have to have faith that while your kids can seem to be selfish and concerned only about the word ‘mine’ sometimes, overall, they are watching you really carefully. And if you care about other people, they will too."

- Jennifer Garner

"Sometimes we try to protect our children so much that when something doesn’t go right in their lives, they’re unprepared to deal with adversity. I don’t think that does our kids any favors."

- Taraji P. Henson

"I have to keep reminding myself that I created life, and there’s no cooler thing than being able to create life inside of you. So if the repercussions of that are extra stretch marks, saggy skin and more weight on my body, so be it."

- Ashley Graham

"The one thing you’ve got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time."

- Emma Thompson

"Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own."

- Marguerite Kelly

"What children take from us, they give… We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply."

- Sonia Taitz

"As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong."

- Kristin Hannah

"Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom, but for me, she’s really the guiding force."

- Taylor Swift

"I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is."

- Oprah

"I think of motherhood as a great big adventure. You set off on a journey, you don’t really know how to navigate things, and you don’t exactly know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there."

- Cynthia Rowley

"If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."

- Stevie Wonder

"Kids don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Riney Jordan

"Motherhood is hard. Motherhood is glorious. Motherhood is hard."

- Lisa-Jo Baker

"Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming."

- Robert Tew

"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

"I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. Your heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby."

- Kate Beckinsale

"There is no way to be the perfect mother but a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

- Debasish Mridha

"The soul is healed by being with children."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"You never understand life until it grows inside of you."

- Sandra C. Kassis

"It is never easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it."

- Betty White

"There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss."

- Saleem Sharma

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

- Honoré de Balzac

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

- Elaine Heffner

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

- Oscar Wilde

"To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth… is potentially to have everything."

- Joan Didion

"I’ve never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I’m so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she’s amazing. I hope she’s not looking at me thinking, ‘Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?’"

- Katie Holmes

"How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident. being comfortable in your skin—that’s what really makes you beautiful."

- Bobbi Brown

"Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you’ve gained from having one."

- Jill Churchill

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

- Franklin P. Jones

"The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

"If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent."

- Bette Davis

"A happy mother is a good mother, and if work makes you hum, your whole family sings along."

- Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."

- Robert J. Quillen

"A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have."

- Robert Brault

"My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it."

- Buddy Hackett

"Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices."

- Betsy Jacobsen

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

- Calvin Trillin

"Say yes to the feelings, even as you say no to the behavior."

- Daniel J. Siegel

"No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say “Oh, my gosh,” and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It’s not a question of choice."

- Marisa de los Santos

"A mother needs only step into the shower to be instantly reassured she is indispensable to every member of her family."

- Lynne Williams

"At the end of the day, my most important job is still mom-in-chief."

- Michelle Obama

"I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."

- Rose Kennedy

"Children are great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too."

- Lionel Kauffman

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."

- Chinese Proverb

"It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety."

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey

"The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents."

- John J. Plomp

"Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children!"

- Sam Levenson

"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."

- William Feather

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Having a baby is just living in the constant unexpected. You never know when you’re gonna get crapped on or when you’re gonna get a big smile or when that smile immediately turns into hysterics."

- Blake Lively

"I’m not a good mom. I’m not a bad mom. I’m the mama I am, and I try very hard, and when I fail, that’s ok."

- Kristen Bell

"Everything I am, you helped me to be."

- unknown

"Motherhood is basically finding activities for children in three-hour pockets of time for the rest of your life."

- Mindy Kaling

"Usually, the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty."

- Julia Roberts

"Mothers don’t sleep. They just worry with their eyes closed."

- unknown

"Motherhood: Feeding them as a baby and then throughout most of their twenties."

- unknown

"A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge"

- unknown

"Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young."

- unknown

"Remember, Mama, you’re doing an amazing job. You deserve to take a few moments for yourself each day. You are so worth it."

"A mother continues to labor long after the baby is born."

"Those little people didn’t grow themselves. You were there every step of the way. Your house was empty when you moved in, and look at how much beauty and comfort you’ve created in it."

"You, Mama, are filled up from head to toe. You are grateful. You are here. You matter."

"You are here right now. There is no other place that is more perfect for you. You are here. At this moment, your lungs are breathing, your heart is beating, and your blood is flowing. This moment is meant just for you."

"Deep within your heart and soul lives the truth of your worth. Learn to look within at the gifts you innately possess. Value the person you are. You are worthy."

"Behind every great child is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up."

"Beautiful Mama, you are enough. You are so much MORE than enough."

"Make the most of today because it is right here. Play that game, sing that song, read one more book, and enjoy those cuddles. Treasure all those precious little moments. Because at the end of your life, you’ll never look back and think, ‘I spent too much time with my kids.’"

"Take some time to everything you’ve done, everything you’re working for, and everything you will achieve. Your accomplishments deserve to be celebrated."

"In this moment, you are safe. In this moment, you have everything you need. Ultimately, all is well."

"There is only one you, so why not spend the rest of your life being in love with yourself."

"Keep seeking the many moments for gratitude in your life. Even if these moments might seem small at first. A lot of little grateful moments really add up."

"Mama, your body is beautiful. It’s doing, and has done, miraculous work."

"When we look back, we can feel gratitude for the most challenging experiences because we have learned more about ourselves through the process. We can consciously find the gems in the struggles."

"You embody a wonderful quality that will support you and others throughout the day. You are bright and radiant and ready. Have a beautiful day, Mama."

"A goal is what we want the end result to be. An intention is the way of being on our journey to get there."

"You’ve Got This"

"Within each one of us is a reservoir of peace and wisdom. Within us we have everything we need to navigate life and motherhood."

"Be patient and kind with yourself, mama. You are already doing so much."

"It’s time for you to reclaim your mistakes as arrows pointing you toward a different way."

"You always have the choice to pause."

"Whenever you feel like you are failing, look in the eyes of your child and know your value."

"Motherhood is not for us to plan, but for us to discover."

"Behind every great kid is a mom who is pretty sure she is screwing it up."

"Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything."

- Unknown

"Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."

"Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it."

"Never limit yourself. You can be a mom and pursue your dream simultaneously."

"I am brave and courageous for even trying, when I think I can’t do it."

"I am not a bad mom because I work, and I am not a bad employee because I am a mom."

"A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go."

"Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother."

"A mother is a daughter’s first best friend."