Quote by Desmond Tutu
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you a

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu

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When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. – Desmond Tutu

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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. – Desmond Tutu

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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think thats what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check. – Leighton Meester

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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well. – Sachin Tendulkar

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Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. – Yiddish Proverb

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Everything is a gift of the universe — even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment. – Ken Keyes Jr.

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Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. – J.M. Reinoso

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