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• As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books

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• If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

  Michael Crichton

  Life, History, Tree

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• Life is nothing without friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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• You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Relationship, Years, Numbers

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

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• Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

  Paul Simon

  Love, Children, People

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• A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

  Washington Irving

  Best Friend, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

  Charlotte Gray

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

  Robert Frost

  Break Up, Breakup, Missing

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Mother, Party, Men

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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• Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

  Byron Katie

  Children, Parent, Buttons

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, Mother, Routine

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Healing, Parenting

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• I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

  John Green

  School, Years, Two Best Friends

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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• For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Home, Kids

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• Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

  John Gray

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

  Tony Robbins

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Reality

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• A house is not a home until it has a dog.

  Gerald Durrell

  Dog, Home, Animal

  Gerald Durrell (1995). “Best dog stories”

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• If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

  Janet Lane-Claypon

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Christmas, Struggle, Holiday

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• The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Equality, Justice, Tolerance

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• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

  Ugo Betti

  Home, Thinking, Parent

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

  James Ellis

  Joy, Mind, Littles

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