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Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
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
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Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
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
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
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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)
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
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
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
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
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
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
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
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
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
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
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
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
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- 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
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
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
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