Relationships and Family

Be of love (a little) more careful than of everything.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves.

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct–it’s an art.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world; but it will be heard by posterity.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

And that’s what parents were created for.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks most deeply and draws more blood.