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If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

If you can do any favor for yourself, if you want to understand yourself, if you really want to build anything for yourself, try to make a plan to have a cozy home and a cozy partner. When even God may leave you, your partner should not-that kind of partner; a partner who does not know how to part. If your partner knows that he can part, he does not yet have the power to unite.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

If you do not love yourself to the depth of totality, you will never love love as a reality.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

I got born in the wrong family.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

I have a very strong family.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

I love you but you didn't bring me flowers. Your love is hanging on flowers! You are seasonal, conditional, demanding and bargaining. Love is not a bargain. Love is not a business. It cannot be bought and sold. It has no condition. When you put a condition on love, it evaporates.

I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.