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"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."
"Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity."
"First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that."
"Family is what grounds you."
"A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind."
"The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind."
"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
"Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do."
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."
"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
"If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important."
"We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society"
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
"The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy."
"Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it."
"Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?"
"My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs."
"My family really does come first. It always did and always will."
"It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife."
"Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward."
