Free Erica Jong - My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

Robert Benchley - It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous.

Gustave Flaubert - Missing someone is a part of loving them. If you’re never apart, you’ll never really know how strong your love is.

Benjamin Disraeli - Never complain and never explain.

DeAnna Anderson — “If I had to choose between breathing and loving you I would use my last breath to tell you I love you.”

S. McNutt - Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respe

John D. Rockefeller - Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Joel Osteen - I challenge you to let every day be a Friday. Give yourself permission to be happy every day.

Nikki Schiefelbein - It's hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you're lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.

Spike Milligan - As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

Wilfred Peterson - Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new gri

Caitlin Houston - Words are not enough to express the unconditional love that exists between a mother and a daughter.

h.r.d - Learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn to admire your beauty without finding fault. Learn to love yourself without the love of others.

Tyler Knott Gregson - How did the days steal you so efficiently from me? Time is a thief that never gets caught.

Sarah McCane - Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold.

Emily Potter - Heroes never die. They live on forever in the hearts and minds of those who would follow in their footsteps.

Mariah Carey - I am thinking of you, In my sleepless solitude tonight. If it’s wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right. ‘Cause I’m drowned in you, And I won’t pull through, without

Edmond Mbiaka - When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions.

Herman Hesse - If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Elaine Davis - “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”

William Arthur Ward — “Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.”

Love Actually - “To me, you are perfect.”

Amy Harmon - I would remember how I had wanted her and hated her and wished she would leave me alone and never let me go. And I would miss her.

THE MIZ - I will let my daughter do whatever her heart wants. I will support her and guide her and give her all the knowledge that I have because I want her to succeed in whatever she loves.

Mark Anthony - And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.

Toni Morrison - She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Jimmy Carter - I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Helen Claes - What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be.

Logic - I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Hope Hicks - There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

Guy Johnson - My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

Kate Spade - She makes the day brighter. She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes.

Sophie Tucker - From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five

Susie Bright - I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Jacqueline Middleton, Until the Last Star Fades - She’s my best friend — she’s everything to me. It’s always just been me and her against the world.

Gloria Naylor - Old as she was, she still missed her Daddy sometimes.

Barbara Delinsky - Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.