All Quotes By Tag: Family
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“I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.”
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“It’s all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.”Why are you saying that?”She might need permission to die, Cal.”I don’t want her to. She doesn’t have my permission.”
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“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds “joy luck” is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
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“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?” she asked. “Don’t you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?””Wouldn’t it be great if it did?” I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”
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“I’m inspired by the people I meet in my travels–hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”
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“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
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“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”
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“A good family is better than loneliness and loneliness is better than a bad family.”
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“What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.”
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“Family it is not an important thing, it is everything.”
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“2/3rds of unexpected deaths are wiping out a family’s assets due to a lack of insurance cover. Protect your assets, Protect your family.”
“Dad called it “enlightenment” but to me, it just felt lonely.”
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“Creating a business that doesn’t require a sacrifice of your happiness and family is no joke. Choose lifestyle over business.Create a lifestyle business.”
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