Family & Love Quotes

 

“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
Andre Maurois

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.”
-Thomas A. Kempis

“It doesn’t matter who my father was, it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton

“It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on”
Anonymous

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
- Anthony Brandt

“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness.”
Euripides

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
Francois Sagan

“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, nor worthiness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”
G.K. Chesterton

“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.”
Mexican proverb

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
Mother Teresa

“…within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”
Neuroscientist, Dr. R. Joseph

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
Nietzsche

“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
Norman Maclean

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
Thomas Paine

“Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare

“A simple child. That lightly draws it’s breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?”
William Wordsworth

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“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

-The Bible, Corinthians 13

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IF…..

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
‘ Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
- R Kipling

 

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