In days past, people sat around the kitchen table and talked. Laughter was shared between husband and wife, and wisdom was passed from grandparent to child. The stories that were told were the glue that bonded hearts and held families and friends together. With all that humans have gained with technology, computers and television, we have lost something special to humanity. It is time to once again share our stories, heart to heartPatty Hansen
A chemist who can extract his heart's element, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love
Kahlil Gibran
Life without a friend is death without a witness
Spanish Proverb
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has
Henry Ward Beecher
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind
Henry James
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself
John MacNoughton
Love is a wonderful thing. You never have to take it away from one person to give it to another. There's always more than enough to go around
Pamela J. deRoy
What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away you keep forever
Axel Munthe
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority
Ralph W. Sackman
To cultivate kindness is valuable part of the business of life
Samuel Johnson
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you
Ruth Sweltzer
After the verb "To love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world
Bertha von Suttner
We cannot love only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men!
Herman Melville
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great returns
Elbert Hubbard
It is more blessed to give than to receive
Acts 20:35
The capacity to care is the thing that gives life its deepest meaning and significance
Pablo Casals
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart, the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds
Michael Dorris
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give
Antoine de Saint Exupery
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given a chance
James A. Autry
When deeds speak, words are nothing
African Proverb
I believe every person has a heart and if you can reach it, you can make a difference
Uli Derickson
It is raining still...Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life in itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I'll go for a walk with my umbrella
Sun-Young Park
They say a person needs just these things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do and something to hope for
Tom Bodett
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without forgetting
Elizabeth Bibesco
Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body
Elizabeth Stove
He who raises a child is to be called its father, not the man who only gave it birth
Midrash, Exodus Rabbaj, 46:5
You never know when you're making a memory
Rickie Lee Jones
Your children are always your babies, even if they have gray hair
Janet Leigh
No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being...must come from within
R.W. Clark
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
Henrik Ibsen
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health vanished
Og Mandino
Please continue to look at your children as valuable treasures. Honour them and yourself
Bernie Siegel
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
Thomas Jefferson
There are always two choices. Two paths to take, one is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy
Source Unknown
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience
Mark Twain
A child needs your love most when she deserves it the least
Anonymous
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire
William Butler Yeats
Hope is the parent of faith!
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves
Galileo
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge
Albert Einstein
A child's joy is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark
Chinese Proverb
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child
Carl Jung
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings
Okakura Kukuzo
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul
Joseph Addison
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life
Muriel Spark
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms--to choose one's own way
Viktor Frankl
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight
Rossiter Worthington Raymond
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies
William Penn
Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional
Art Clanin
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Perry Bysshe Shelly
Signs from the soul come silently, as silently as the sun enters the darkened world
Tibetan Saying
Family means sharing inadequacies, imperfections and feelings with each other and still loving each other. But even when you set out to love, you may not always be a likeable person. And when you're not perfect, forgiveness for yourself and others become important. Then you get up the next day and start again. It is a process, like the opening of a bud. It is a flowering, a blooming and blossoming
Bernie Siegel
Kind words do not cost much...Yet they accomplish much
Blaise Pascal
God could not be everywhere, and so He made mothers!
Jewish Proverb
We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are
Desire-Joseph Mercier
All everything that I understand, I understand only because I love
Leo Tolstoy
Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit
German Proverb
Two men look out through the same bars, on sees mud, and one the stars
Frederick Longbridge
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. They teach the truth by living it
James A. Garfield
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice
Martial
Humour is mankind's greatest blessing
Mark Twain
It's good to remember that we aren't helpless. There is always something we can do
Carla Gorrell
What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become
Ann Landers
Earth is crammed with heaven
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fate loves the fearless
James Russell Lowell
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship
Louisa May Alcott
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other
Luciano De Creschenzo
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God
Helen Keller
You never really lose until you quit trying
Mike Ditka, NFL Football Coach
If we did all the things we were capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves
Thomas Edison
The human spirit cannot be paralyzed. If you are breathing you can dream
Mike Brown
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity
Albert Einstein
Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil...It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest you humanity
Albert Schweitzer
Service was as much a part of my upbringing as eating breakfast and going to school. It isn't something that you do in your spare time. It was clear that it was the very purpose of life. In that context, you're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying, to keep doing the best you can every day
Marian Wright Edelman
You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy
Carol Burnett
Never doubt that small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world, indeed it's the only thin that ever has
Margaret Mead
When you believe you can--you can!
Maxwell Maltz
Success is a state of mind
Joyce Brothers
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and umperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at least some crisis shows what we have become
Brooke Foss Westcott
My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious
Helen Keller
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how
Friedrich Nietzsche
The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur, the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes--every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy
Orison Swett Marden
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The worst prison would be a closed heart
Pope John Paul II
I'm not a has-been. I'm a will be
Lauren Bacall
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