Quotes

About family
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There’s no vocabulary  For love within a family, love that’s lived in  But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech.  This love is silent. -T.S. Eliot The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.  -George Santayana . Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

-John Wilmot
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-George Burns
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-John Bowring
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
-Alex Haley
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Fear
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Try a thing you haven’t done three times. 
Once, to get over the fear of doing it. 
Twice, to learn how to do it. 
And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
-Virgil Garnett Thomson
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. 
Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.”
-Mark Twain
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
-Bill Cosby
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
-W. Clement Stone
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Friendship
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The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all–friends?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
-Francis Bacon
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
-George Eliot
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. 
But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Happiness
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- E E. Cummings
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
- James Barrie
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.  It is not that we seize them, but they seize us.
- Ashley Montagu
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Enjoy your life without comparing it to others.
- Condobcet
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Home
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
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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
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
-Benjamin Franklin
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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
-Chinese Proverb
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Humor
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
-Oscar Levant
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
-Norm Crosby
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
-Kurt Vonnegut
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. 
Now I’m beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
-Cyril Connolly
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
-Edith Sitwell
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Life
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Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-Lao-Tze
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. 
The only consequence is what we do.
-John Ruskin
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The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
-Albert Einstein
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God loved the birds and invented trees. 
Man loved the birds and invented cages.
-Jacques Deval