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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Family.
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
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
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
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
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- 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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
I am at Peace with myself,
my family, my community, and the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
Everyone I Love Becomes My Family -
and I Love Everyone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
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)
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
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
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
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
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
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
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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