2,432 quotes found
“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”
“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”
“I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart”
“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”
“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”
“We are a noisy and blessed little family”
“Abundance of the Heart. He describes an experience with nature and his father. An environment of trust can have to do with a special experience, a place, another person, or people.My first real dis...”
“Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled him gently i...”
“Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos. As our experiences in marriages, families, and friendship teach us, it takes relationships to provide the friction th...”
“What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share an...”
“Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.”
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”
“With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so ...”
“People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it...”
“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”
“For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?”
“The greatest things are freely giving; life, love, joy, smiles, hugs, inner peace, blessings, family, friends, nature.!”
