Family

"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 ...

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

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up." - Phyllis Diller ...

"Friends will come and go but family remains forever." ...

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back."       - William D. Tammeus ...

"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 ...

"We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must be changed anyway if we are ...

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

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." - Anthony Brandt ...