A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous

Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable - the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.

Further reading: Mother Teresa: Love begins at home

Home is our sanctuary

Home is where our loved ones are

Our loved ones

Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. John Wooden

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Affirmations of an Inspired Life - Young-Adult Version (Share this with all the young people in your life)

We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. - Native American traditional

You and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit. Khalil Gibran

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit. - Khalil Gibran 

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. - St. Francis of Assisi 

 Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound, and that is the one flesh of all humankind. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

 We are all of one body. Any harm or hatred toward another is injury or hate toward the whole of creation and toward oneself. 

 Further Reading: Feel Your Connection With the Infinite - a Meditation 

  Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi: We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? 

  A common denominator of all religions is that they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people. - jlh

Enjoy each step along the way. Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Life is a journey. It is not a race to test who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot. Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander - watching the view to left and right - above and below - as the days slowly move past in dress review.

Further reading: I hope you dance

Be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

Half Reveal and Half Conceal

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The challenge of living a great life is to create a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Further reading: A life lived in fear is a life half lived