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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
In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
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
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
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
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)
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
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
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
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
I have also seen children successfully
surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance.
That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyone I Love Becomes My Family -
and I Love Everyone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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