It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. I owe to my mother. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. And that's what parents were created for. She is nature, soil, ocean.
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.