- “We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don’t let it consume you.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham
- “Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
- “For a happy life,it’s best we should ignore &overlook things,people,incidents,affairs & matters.It is not necessary that we show a reaction to everything. Step back & ask yourself if the matter is really worth responding to.” ― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “Faith is never connected to safe. There is no faith without tension. For a rubber band to function to it’s elasticity, it has to experience a tension. Saints of God who has no tension has no function.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Grief does not exist within a vacuum, but it also does not exist within just one life. It spreads out and affects the people “above you” in your family tree and the people who will come after you or “below you.” Grief also impacts entire races, genders, generations, and communities, and those beliefs about grief and the stories we tell ourselves about whether or not grief is acceptable, what’s at the root cause of grief, and whether or not we can recover from that grief have an enormous impact on how we give ourselves permission to grieve, whether we consciously acknowledge it or not.” ― Shelby Forsythia, Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
- I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. Jet Li
- Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore. Robin Hobb
- “Do you want to acquire God’s own wisdom? Relate with the Holy Spirit. Be a seeker of divine guidance by the Holy Spirit. You can’t be a man or woman of solution without God.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn’t even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.” ― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
- “Change, although uncomfortable and oftentimes difficult, is a necessary part of any individual’s life.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother’s Love
- “It’s as if once you feel a connection with someone, you assume it will always be so. The sum of daily interactions and activities continually shapes us and adds nuance to our understanding of the world so that no one is the same as yesterday, nor will today’s self be identical to tomorrow’s. Opinions, attitudes, and beliefs change. So it doesn’t matter how long you have known or how well you think you know people; if you stop listening, you will eventually lose your grasp of who they are and how to relate to them.Relying on the past to understand someone in the present is doomed to failure. The French writer André Maurois wrote, “A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.” ― Kate Murphy, You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters
- “Coche’s answer was pretty simple: people in long term relationships tend to lose their curiosity for each other. Not necessarily in an unkind way; they just become convinced they know each other better than they do. They don’t listen because they think they already know what the other person will say. Coche gave the example of spouses who answer questions or make decisions for each other. They might also give gifts that miss the mark, resulting in disappointment and hurt feelings. Parents can make the same sorts of mistakes, assuming they know what their children like or don’t like and what they would or would not do.” ― Kate Murphy, You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters
- “We walk all over the earth but it never complains of being a doormat. So we give it the highest title of love, adoration and family: praising it for mothering every species and the whole of all humanity.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too.” ― Sandra Neil Wallace
- “God’s word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to have.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)
- Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther
- “It is a sign of spiritual maturity to care about people, but not about how they are doing.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Well, you make time for those you care for. You don’t wait for time to be available.” ― K. Weikel, Replay: White
- “All roads out of hell lead home.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” ― Bernard Branson
- “Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.” ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
- Your parents miss you and wish you’d call. Later you’ll miss them and wish you could. Paul Graham
- “The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has “Less excuses, more results. Less distraction, more focus. Less me, more we. Live with “Gratitude” not with “Greytitude” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
- “A few things to remember:You are beautiful, just as you are. You are as worthy as anyone who has ever lived. Your voice doesn’t just matter but is needed.Your love makes a profound difference.Your compassion serves us all.We are family.We’ll figure that out someday,with a lot of dedication and hard work.It will be worth it.I love you.” ― Scott Stabile
- As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support. Tiger Woods
- “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Life is short. Don’t ignore a relative or friend because of the cost of a phone call. You’ll only live to regret it.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.” ― Abhishek Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely