Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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A red apple invites stones. ~Kurdish Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace. ~M. Scott Peck
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I am a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional. ~Mary Lambert
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ~David Hyde Pierce
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. ~Ice T
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Every seller praises his wares. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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