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Happiness [is] only real when sharedJon Krakauer
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That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.Deb Caletti
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I may not always be with you But when we're far apart Remember you will be with me Right inside my heartMarc Wambolt
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Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!Stieg Larsson
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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.Melina Marchetta
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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.Mitch Albom
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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 into the firelight. ‘We had one home, ’ she said. ‘Now we have two.’ She gave Nico a big hug and the crowd roared with approval. For once, Nico didn’t feel like pulling away. He buried his face in Reyna’s shoulder and blinked the tears out of his eyes. .Rick Riordan
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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 and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable. .Gladys M. Hunt
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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.Thornton Wilder
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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.Leigh Hunt
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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 badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.Tori Spelling
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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 was populated, and before there were wars and jobs and colleges and movies and clothes and opinions and foreign travel -- before all of these things there had been only one person, Zora, and only one place: a tent in the living room made from chairs and bed-sheets. After a few years, Levi arrived; space was made for him; it was as if he had always been. Looking at them both now, Jerome found himself in their finger joints and neat conch ears, in their long legs and wild curls. He heard himself in their partial lisps caused by puffy tongues vibrating against slightly noticeable buckteeth. He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away. .Zadie Smith
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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.Haniel Long
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.Mitch Albom
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Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.” Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.” Mom: “Television is a passivity.” Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.” Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.” Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.” Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.” Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.John Green
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The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens, and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.Laurell K. Hamilton
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Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.Jonathan Tropper
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I sustain myself with the love of family.Maya Angelou
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.Alice Sebold
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Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.Cheryl Lacey Donovan
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A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.Unknown
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I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.Maya Angelou
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.George Burns
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The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.Jay McInerney
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I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.Matt Groening
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.George Bernard Shaw
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When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.Erma Bombeck
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How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding." The Ministry's providing a couple of cars, " said Mr. Weasley.Everyone looked up at him." Why?" said Percy curiously." It's because of you, Perce, " said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-""-for Humongous Bighead, " said Fred.J.k. Rowling
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Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.Derek Landy
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Fred, you next, " the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George, " said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?" "Sorry, George, dear." "Only joking, I am Fred, " said the boy and off he went.J.k. Rowling
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Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.Sam Levenson
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A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?Stephen Colbert
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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.Chuck Palahniuk
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I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.Stephen King
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A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.Mary Karr
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It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die, " she said. Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking Small's neck with great deliberation, as if the fate of the Dells depended on that smooth, careful movement." I have two responses to that, " he said finally. "First, everyone's going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reasons I loved my father." He looked at her keenly. "Did you love yours?"" Yes, " she whispered. He stroked Small's nose. "I love you, " he said, "even knowing you'll never have me. And I love my brother, more than I ever realized before you came along. You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do." She made a connection then. Surprised she sat back from him and studied his face, soft with shadows and light. She saw a part of him she hadn't seen before." You came to me for lessons to guard your mind, " she said, "and you stopped asking me to marry you, both at the same time. You did those things out of love for your brother."" Well" he said, looking a bit sheepishly at the floor. "I also took a few swings at him, but that's neither here nor there."" You're good at love, " she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. "I'm not so good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.Kristin Cashore
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The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.Gail Carriger
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To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.Stefan Molyneux
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They always say that the daughter will grow up to look like their mother. So, I asked my girlfriend if I could see her mother naked. Needless to say. It was a very short relationship.Anthony T.Hincks
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If you have someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for, your life is better than most battle.Mark Sherman Smeester
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I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mother is mandatory, not because she's someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street. Which she wouldn't be anyway; walking is for poor peopleRansom Riggs
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This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died–what I call your ‘spiritual security’–knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.Mitch Albom
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Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.Dakota Dawn
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Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.Norlito Baclayen
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Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.Chuck Palahniuk
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A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.Sunday Adelaja
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Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Life doesn't revolve around you It revolves around those you loveUnknown
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We are a noisy and blessed little familyNancy E. Turner
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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.Jeanette Winterson
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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?Joyce Carol Oates
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Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another’s side.Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.Ron Baratono
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When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; if only there were a way to take a snapshot of this moment and place it into a mason jar next to some peach preserves. Or, you can just close your eyes and let the joy sink into your psyche. Each, in their own way will last a lifetime." - A.H. Scott 4/29/12A.H. Scott
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A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.Parul Wadhwa
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Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happySunday Adelaja
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Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him? In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief. Love. Love was what drove him.David Bowles
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To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.Amy Denise
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I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.Barack Obama
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The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.Malorie Blackman
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Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.Suzy Kassem
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Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is no one to appreciate it.Akash Lakhotia
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Let's try living our lives by not letting our minds be ruled by materialistic elements.Mohith Agadi
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.Philip Larkin
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Writers will happen in the best of families.Rita Mae Brown
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Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.Paul Pearsall
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How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?Rabih Alameddine
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I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.Michael Palin
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When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way she kneads her Easter bread, or if I fail to study the way she sews a seam in suede, or if I lose the mental image I have of her when she negotiates a better deal with a button salesman, somehow, the very essence of her will be lost. When she goes, the responsibility for carrying on will fall to me. My mother says I’m the keeper of the flame, because I work here, and because I choose to live here. A flame is a very fragile thing, too, and there are times when I wonder if I’m the on who can keep it going.Adriana Trigiani
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The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.Erica Goros
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Make your heart, your dearest home.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Your neighbour is your nearest family.Lailah Gifty Akita
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If my life was pulled into the pages of a book, there would be coffee stains and wrinkles along the lines of that narrative. Because all I can wish is that the book of my life would be well read and well loved. Living within words and the sound of writing.F.K. Preston
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I stared at the little white agates in my hand, delicate as moon drops. The mystery of God's love as I understand it is that God loves the man who was being mean to his dog just as much as he loves babies; God loves Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons, as much as he loves Desmond Tutu. And he loved her just as much when she was releasing the handbrake of her car that sent her boys into the river as he did when she first nursed them. So of course, he loves old ordinary me, even or especially at my most scared and petty and mean and obsessive. Loves me; chooses me. Remembering this helped, but here is what in fact saved me: Sam came over to see what I held in my palm, glared contemptuously at my small white pebbles, and then without missing a beat slapped the bottom of my hand so that the agates scattered. He ran off down the beach, laughing with glee. It surprised me so, this small meanness, that it made me catch my breath. Boy, I thought, is he going to be hard to place. When I was young I would have felt, What’s the point of trying to be good if the people who aren’t even trying get to be equally loved? Now I just picked up my pace and tried to catch up with that rotten Sam, because I don’t know much of anything for sure. Only that I am loved — as is .Anne Lamott
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He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family–especially when they’re great.Greg Behrendt
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He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del’s hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.Nora Roberts
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Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.Jerry L. Lewis
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The fights are always the sameStephen Chbosky
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We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.Michelle Moran
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She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we loveJessica Anya Blau
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Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I'd spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized I had come to speak it fluently. When was it that you realized the thread woven through your DNA carried the relationship deformities of your blood relatives as much as it did their diabetes and bone density? .Alice Sebold
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If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.Valerie Tripp
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They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody.Christopher Paolini
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A man us measured by the depths of his commitments.Mark William Goldman
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Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to examine them, though, the words seem hollow, seem to rattle at my feet like empty cans.Unknown
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She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.Mala Naidoo
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A good starts with breakfast; no matter what I'm going through, a good breakfast with friends, family, or tribe helo me and others start the day right and better.a professional practice I follow as retaught to me by a mentor who was a 3 star general when he held the meeting until i and c others had a full breakfast. Good leadrrship and a lesson with kindness.Diana Kanecki
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I believe that I can teach my children to follow their dreams by following my own.Liimu McGill
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Family is the most important thing in this life.Shannon Mullen
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Love. It’s the complex chemistry of a blind heart and a distracted mind. Love is a shapeshifter. Love walks along the same path as hate. Love makes us whole. Love makes us weak. Love drives us to insanity. Love can be a curse. Love is a miracle.Julie Anderson
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I have known both of you all your lives, have carried your Daddy in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed and spanked him and watched him learn to walk. I don’t know if you’ve known anybody from that far back; if you’ve loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on time and human pain and effort. Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father’s face, for behind your father’s face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. Let him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child. Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother’s so easily wiped away. But no one’s hand can wipe away those tears he sheds invisibly today, which one hears in his laughter and in his speech and in his songs.Unknown
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Sibling relationships outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.Erica E. Goode
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Do not refuse to help your own relatives.Lailah Gifty Akita
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A shared life is a sacred love.Lailah Gifty Akita
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You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.Janvier ChouteuChando
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Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.Janvier ChouteuChando
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You can’t say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person’s complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup.Janvier ChouteuChando
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Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.Janvier ChouteuChando
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The depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.Janvier ChouteuChando
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Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?Janvier ChouteuChando