Happy Mother's Day to all moms and stepmoms! Here are a few favorite quotes for you to ponder, courtesy, in part, of a wonderful site called Interlude Retreat, a little breath of calm and fresh air online….

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The door to the human heart can be opened only from the inside.

My fine strong horse can pull a heavy plough and never tire.
Yet it can also gallop through a wild country.
I am working hard at love, with the wind in my hair.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Enjoy the day!

(Added later) Also, make sure to stop by one of my favorite blogs for a sweet bit of Mother's Day sass at Fragrant Liar. And if you're up for a good, Texas-oriented laugh, take her tour of painted outhouses here.) She's written for Playgirl before… and she's a riot.