"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude."

Family, Brothers, Solitude

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"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude."

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

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Mother, Listening, Wisdom, Perspective

"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Gratitude, Life, Identity

"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Family, Respect, Building, Values

"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Family, Marriage, Peace, Friendship

"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Family, Humor, Memory, Generations

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Family, Emotion, Sadness, Life

"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Life, Baby, Value

"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Family, Fate, Bitterness, Acceptance

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"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."

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"To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most."

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"Man dies of cold, not of darkness."

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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."

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"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."

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

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."

"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."

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"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."

"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."

"To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be."

"Faith which does not doubt is dead faith."

"We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe."

"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."

"To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most."

"Man dies of cold, not of darkness."

"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."

"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."