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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
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In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
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You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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)
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
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Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you 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
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
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
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
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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist
except in the mothballs of memory.
- John Steinbeck (Travels With Charley)
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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
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
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
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
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
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