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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Related topics: Family Relationship Inspirational
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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 thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
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
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
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
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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.
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You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
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
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
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Home is where we feel comfortable.
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You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Home is where our loved ones are.
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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
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
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)
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
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
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
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Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Choose love. Choose to release all resentments.
Forgive everyone. Choose to release all regrets.
Forgive yourself for all decisions that you have ever made
that didn't work out as you hoped.
Forgive yourself for any financial decisions
that didn't meet your expectations.
Release your regrets if you choose
the "wrong" spouse or the "wrong" career.
Today, choose love.
Choose to love yourself.
Choose to love your life.
Choose to love all the friends, family, co-workers,
acquaintances, and others who share your life.
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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
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
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
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
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My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- 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
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
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
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
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