Family

"The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane." - Donald G. Smith ...

"Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum ...

“You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.” - Franklin P. Jones ...

"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of ...

"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood but also for those whom we'd give blood." - Charles Dickens ...

“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”                 ― Pope John Paul II ...

"Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew." - Alice Miller ...

"Your life is defined by your fatherly and motherly desire and duty to give your children the best: a loving home, an upbring­ing, a healthy and positive start on the road of life, now and for eternity. Above all, through ...

"I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing." ...

"The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately, they talk to the heart."             - Haim Ginott ...