Quotes on Family Love

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

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.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Love for family and friends, great as it may be, is much more profound when anchored in the love of Jesus Christ. Parental love for children has more meaning here and hereafter because of Him. All loving relationships are elevated in Him. Love of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ provides the illumination, inspiration, and motivation to love others in a loftier way.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

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 any more.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.