You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
You can kid the world, but not your sister.
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
It takes two men to make one brother.
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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