Healthy Family Quotes:

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Contentment, Inspirational Buddhist, Spiritual Buddhist

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

- George William Curtis

source: Lotus-Eating Ch. 4

topic: Fitness, Lying, Firsts, Healthy Living, Organ Donation

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Country, Long, Community, Healthy Family

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

- Robert Urich

topic: Inspiration, Health, Healthy, Inspirational Health, Living Healthy

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Witty, Inspirational Life, Inspirational Health, Motivational Health

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

- David Mamet

topic: Ideas, Perfect, Healthy, Perfect Happiness, Healthy Family

In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.

- Louise Hart

source: Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”

topic: Children, Thinking, Ideas, Gaining Confidence, Healthy Family

The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners." A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace.

- Pope Francis

source: "Pope Francis' top 10 most quotable quotes of the year" by Carol Glatz, www.catholicnews.com. February 28, 2014.

topic: Mother, Sorry, Husband, Mother In Law, Perfect Family

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

- Mike Farrell

topic: Dream, Struggle, Simple, Healthy Family

Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

- Carolyn Maloney

source: Carolyn Maloney's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

topic: Mom, Badass, Mean, Single Women, Healthy Family

Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Children, Philosophy, Mean, Slappers, Healthy Family

All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Thinking, Rights, People, Political Rights, Traditional Family

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, University of Chicago Press

topic: Lying, Perspective, Healthy, Uselessness, Healthy Family

The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Mean, Kids, Weekend, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance