Family Quote by Beecher, Catharine E. (Catharine Esther

“The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until…

— Lynda Williams

“Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own…

— Herman Koch

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child.”

— Nicole Helget

“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favor of happiness, as a very resolute character.”

— Jane Austen

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What I think is that every family is happy in their own fashion, and every family is unhappy in their own fashion. Every family…

— Elin Hilderbrand

“I suddenly wondered whether Mother might not actually be happy now, whether the sensation of happiness might not be something like faintly glittering gold…

— Osamu Dazai

“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“[...] life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power…

— Malachy McCourt

“...happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to…

— Arnold Bennett

“THE BASIC SOURCES OF HAPPINESS ARE a good heart, compassion, and love. If we have these, even if we’re surrounded by hostility, we’ll feel…

— Dalai Lama, The