My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.
Monica Denise BrownThe best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.
Monica Denise BrownMy first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.
Monica Denise BrownYou can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).
Monica Denise BrownDo you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?
Monica Denise BrownMy image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.
Monica Denise BrownEvery day online, people, especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle this, are so abused and humiliated that they can't imagine living to the next day, and some tragically don't. And there's nothing virtual about that.
Monica Denise BrownYou know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them.
Monica Denise BrownNow, everybody knows the basic erogenous zones. You got one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. ... OK, now most guys will hit one, two, three and then go to seven and set up camp. ... You want to hit 'em all and you wanna mix 'em up. You gotta keep 'em on their toes. ... You could start out with a little one. A two. A one, two, three. A three. A five. A four. A three, two. Two. A two, four, six. Two, four, six. Four. Two. Two. Four, seven! Five, seven! Six, seven! Seven! Seven! Seven! Seven! Seven! Seven! Seven! Seven! Seven! [holds up seven fingers]
Monica Denise BrownThat Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa
Monica Denise BrownI don't know why I love cherries and I love pickles. I eat about two or three Claussen pickles a day. Those are just things I snack on.
Monica Denise BrownWho? God. What? He loves you. Where? Everywhere. When? Always, forever, without ceasing. How? Totally, completely. Why? Because you are His child!
Monica Denise BrownI am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.
Monica Denise BrownI look at you looking at me, Now I know why the best things are free, How you've changed my world You'll never know, I'm different now, You've helped me grow.
Monica Denise BrownI find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.
Monica Denise BrownI've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.
Monica Denise BrownI don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.
Monica Denise BrownI think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.
Monica Denise Brown