Tepat hari ini tanggal 22 Desember, Indonesia memperingati Hari Ibu.
Hari yang didekasikan sebagai penghargaan untuk ibu, mama, bunda, ambu, ummi dan sebutan lainnya untuk sosok wanita hebat di dalam keluarga atas jasa dan cinta tanpa syaratnya.
Memberi penghargaan untuk jasa ibu emang seharusnya dilakukan setiap hari. Tapi enggak ada salahnya juga menjadikan hari ini sebagai momen untuk menyampaikan rasa terima kasih kita untuk ibu kan?
Kalau merasa malu untuk ngucapin langsung, enggak masalah kok lewat surat, sms atau unggahan di Instagram lalu ditag langsung ke ibu, he-he.
Bingung harus menulis apa? Bisa contek quotes tentang ibu yang hangat dan mengharukan berikut ini, girls.
Selamat hari ibu!
(: Selamat Hari Ibu! Ini 4 Sejarah Lahirnya dan Fakta Tentang Hari Ibu. Wajib Tahu!)
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” - George Eliot
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” - Jodi Picoult
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.” —Erich Fromm
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” - Mitch Albom
"I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful." - Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"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, The Last Séance
"Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us."
- Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” - Victor Hugo
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To the world, you are a mother. To a family, you are the world." - unknown