Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

Love fundamentally is the most powerful ecstasy of consciousness, and even if a person goes blind, there is no question when you are in love.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Love is nothing but giving, tolerating and sacrificing.

Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love.

Love is someone you can be silly with

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love is the best part of life

Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is called lover or beloved.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

Love without trust is a river without water.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love without trust does not exist. Love is a strength of trust. Trust is the test of love. When you love, you trust each other. When you don't, you don't. Don't camouflage the word "love" and not trust each other.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.

Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.

Many a family tree needs trimming

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Many things you are already practicing; but you practice them under fear. But if you practice them under love they become Divine.

Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.