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#1

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: age, family

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#2

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: family, inspirational, life, parents

3295 likes

#3

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: family

1811 likes

#4

“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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#5

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

tags: family

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#6

“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

tags: family, fatherhood, humor, parenting, role-models, satire

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#7

“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, Summer Island

tags: daughters, family, love, mothers

992 likes

#8

“Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

tags: akiva

1187 likes

#9

“In My Daughter's Eyes Lyrics
In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I know no fear
But the truth is plain to see
She was sent to rescue me
I see who I want to be
In my daughter's eyes

In my daughter's eyes
Everyone is equal
Darkness turns to light
And the world is at peace
This miracle God gave to me
Gives me strength when I'm weak
I find reason to believe
In my daughter's eyes

And when she wraps her hand around my finger
Oh it puts a smile in my heart
Everything becomes a little clearer
I realize what life is all about

It's hangin' on when your heart
Is had enough
It's givin' more when you feel like givin' up
I've seen the light
It's in my daughter's eyes

In my daughter's eyes
I can see the future
A reflection of who I am
And what we'll be
And though she'll grow and someday leave
Maybe raise a family
When I'm gone
I hope you'll see
How happy she made me
For I'll be there
In my daughter's eyes”
― Martina Mcbride

tags: daughter, song-lyrics

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#10

“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: daughter, family, mother

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#11

“Dear Deborah,

Words do not come easily for so many men. We are taught to be strong, to provide, to put away our emotions. A father can work his way through his days and never see that his years are going by. If I could go back in time, I would say some things to that young father as he holds, somewhat uncertainly, his daughter for the very first time. These are the things I would say:

When you hear the first whimper in the night, go to the nursery leaving your wife sleeping. Rock in a chair, walk the floor, sing a lullaby so that she will know a man can be gentle.

When Mother is away for the evening, come home from work, do the babysitting. Learn to cook a hotdog or a pot of spaghetti, so that your daughter will know a man can serve another's needs.

When she performs in school plays or dances in recitals, arrive early, sit in the front seat, devote your full attention. Clap the loudest, so that she will know a man can have eyes only for her.

When she asks for a tree house, don't just build it, but build it with her. Sit high among the branches and talk about clouds, and caterpillars, and leaves. Ask her about her dreams and wait for her answers, so that she will know a man can listen.

When you pass by her door as she dresses for a date, tell her she is beautiful. Take her on a date yourself. Open doors, buy flowers, look her in the eye, so that she will know a man can respect her.

When she moves away from home, send a card, write a note, call on the phone. If something reminds you of her, take a minute to tell her, so that she will know a man can think of her even when she is away.

Tell her you love her, so that she will know a man can say the words.

If you hurt her, apologize, so that she will know a man can admit that he's wrong.

These seem like such small things, such a fraction of time in the course of two lives. But a thread does not require much space. It can be too fine for the eye to see, yet, it is the very thing that binds, that takes pieces and laces them into a whole.

Without it, there are tatters.

It is never too late for a man to learn to stitch, to begin mending.

These are the things I would tell that young father, if I could.

A daughter grown up quickly. There isn't time to waste.

I love you,
Dad”
― Lisa Wingate, Dandelion Summer

tags: dad, daughter, letter

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#12

“Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: daughter

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#13

“I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.”
― Erica Lorraine Scheidt, Uses for Boys

tags: daughter, missing, mother, mother-daughter, parents, parents-and-children

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#14

“You can't know how much a mother loves.”
― Jessica Fortunato, Steam

tags: daughter, loss, love, mom, mother

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#15

“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, communication, compassion, competition, cruelty, fake, fake-christians, family-members, games, hatred, hurting-people, jealousy, listening, mental-disorders, no-communication, no-talking, passive-agressive-behavior, pity, reaching-out, sisters, talking, understanding

227 likes

#16

“Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: blessings, choices, compassion, empathy, faith, family, family-s-our-forever, fights, forgiving, healing, illness, learning, lessons, loss-of-family, loss-of-sister, love, mending, mental-disorders, misunderstanding, never-or-forever, obedience, redemption, religion, repairing, restoring, sisters, spiritual-journeys, spiritual-paths, tests, trials, wellness

31 likes

#17

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

10862 likes

#18

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: discovery, eccentric, life

3194 likes

#19

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: humor, idleness, inspirational

5367 likes

#20

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: wisdom

1435 likes

#21

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friends, friendship, gratitude

2012 likes

#22

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.”
― A.A. Milne

1232 likes

#23

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

738 likes

#24

“I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

622 likes

#25

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

tags: daffodils, spring, sunlight, winter

758 likes