“Be inspired by great men lives through their famous passages”

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

8/10/2009

What Family Means To Us?

"If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever." 1 Timothy 5:7-9


"If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?" 1 Timothy 3:4-6


"No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are." Takayuki Ikkaku


"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about". Trey Parker and Matt Stone


“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family.” Earl Nightingale


“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” Buddha


“Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.” Anthony Robbins


“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.” Richard Bach


“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.” Bishop Desmond Tutu


“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.” Confucius


“If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree” Michael Crichton


“We always say 'I would kill for my family' or 'I would die for my family' but would you really? I mean, when really put in that situation, would you really give up your life? Do you really love something or someone that much?” Johnny Depp


“Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put-off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.”


“I am the kind of person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world.” Angelina Jolie


“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other” Burton Hills


“Our family is a circle of love and strength. With every birth and every union, the circle grows. Every joy shared adds more love. Every obstacle faced together makes the circle stronger.”


“The family that prays together stays together” Proverb quotes


“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


“A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason” Hugo Grotius


“There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.” A pack of wolves in the likes of money, piece of land, jalousie, time, work, and even love..Jack Handy


“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” Charles R. Swindoll


“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.” Confucius


“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family” Virginia Satir


“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” Barbara Bush


“Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.” Og Mandino


“No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” Elbert Hubbard


“In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.” Dalai Lama


“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained” Winston Churchill


“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you” Kendall Hailey


“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.” Joseph Joubert


“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.” Vince Lombardi


“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.” Proverb quotes


"The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.” Lawrence G. Lovasik


“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


“The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.” Charles Caleb Colton



“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” Pope John Paul II
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