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The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

This grossness, physical love, which is actually the biological cooling system, is very essential. The prana feeds the tattvas and the tattvas create the rasa. Rasa means juices. The juices circulate and in that circulation the glandular system works and involves itself. And there's a place to bring it all to harmony.

This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling.

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.

Time and space cannot play any part between two loving hearts.

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion.  In telling your story.  In authenticity, hustle, and patience.  In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff.  In valuing legacy over currency.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.

we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

We could not be happier.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.