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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
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I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
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Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
When your whole family is loving and supportive, it is a great blessing.
But when family members are indifferent or hostile, release your expectations,
and find the love and support you need elsewhere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is where our loved ones are.
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable,
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
A palace is not a home without loved ones.
A shack or an open field can be paradise
when shared with a loving family.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have also seen children successfully
surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance.
That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
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