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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Related topics: Family Relationship Inspirational
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 
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
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
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
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
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
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
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
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
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- 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
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You don't choose your family.
They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Desmond Tutu
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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
Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- 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
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)
You are my Family
- Karen Drucker
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
You are my family because I CHOOSE you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -
the actions we take.
We also highly value what we SAY.
However, the greatest impact we have
on our family, our friends,
and our world is our kindness and love.
A bowl of soup served with love
is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
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
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Release your burdens - your fears, regrets,
guilts, shames, embarrassments, angers.
One by one, pick up each memory or fear that troubles you,
hold it close, and release it to the Universe.
Release each incident from your past that still bothers you.
Release each fear - your fears about your health,
your family, your job, and every other fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That I was born to this circle - I am blessed.
That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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