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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.

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

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 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 could not be happier.

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

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'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

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 have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

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

We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.

What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.

When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.

Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy home is a man without God. And coziness is the relationship between you and your purity, your piety and your principles to which you have agreed.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.