Albert Einstein
Physicist
"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance"
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Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."
Euripides
Playwright
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it."
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
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"Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation."
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"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."
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"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."
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"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."
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"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
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"United we stand, divided we fall."
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"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
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"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
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"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
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"A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason"
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
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"A man should never neglect his family for business."
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"Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy."
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"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life."
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"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."
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"I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible."
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"I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually."
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"My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way"
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"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
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