We need

We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

~ Virginia Satir

Insanity

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

~Sam Levenson

It kills you

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

~Barbara Kingsolver

It is those

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

~Norman Maclean

The individual

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Other things

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

~Anthony Brandt

We have a few rules

We have a few rules here. Nobody panics. There’s no judgment. You park your judgment at the door. Nobody dies. And — enjoy every moment. What did I miss? Drink chocolate milk. We just have fun. There’s a ton of laughter in this house. A ton of love in this house. There’s a ton of nobility in this house.

~Charlie Sheen

We're definitely at war

"We're definitely at war. They're trying to destroy my family. I take great umbrage with that. Defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock."

~Charlie Sheen

The people

The people we are in relationship with
are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs,
and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.
So... relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth....
If we look honestly at our relationships,
we can see so much about how we have created them.

~ Shakti Gawain

So don't you see?

So don't you see? Everything that we do, the plans we make, the hopes we have, they're futile. Being good at a job, which I was, building a home, which I did, raising a family...which I had, none of it means anything because no matter how we try, how much we strive and struggle, it'll all come to naught. Life is a waste of time. So, that's why I'm counting on you to kill me. You will, won't you?

~Lemuel Idzik

My dad

My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose."

~Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5

May you have

May you have:
A world of wishes at your command
God and his angels close at hand
Friends and family their love impart,
And Irish blessings in you heart.

~an old Irish Blessing

To put the world in order

"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

We grow primarily

"We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize
aspects of our nature that make us different from the family
and culture in which we have been raised."

~ Caroline Myss

Harmonizing heart

Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

~Doc Childre

Happiness is

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

~George Burns

There is not

There is not one who is Fatherless nor Motherless in the universe.

~The Kybalion

Call it a clan

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

~Jane Howard

My grandmother

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

~unknown

Lo, there do I see

Lo, there do I see my father
Lo, there do I see my mother and my sisters
and my brothers
Lo, there do I see the line of my people back
to the beginning
Lo, they do call to me
They bid me take place among them
in the Halls of Valhalla
Where the brave may live forever...

~death song from The Thirteenth Warrior