Brothers quotes

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. 

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. 

A brother is a friend given by Nature. 

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three. 

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother — and they’ll settle for a puppy every time. 

All for one and one for all

My brother and my friend

What fun we have

The time we share

Brothers ’til the end.

Never make a companion equal to a brother. 

It was nice growing up with someone like you — someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!

A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self. 

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago — the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled. 

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. 

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. 

The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. 

After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers. 

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.

Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. 

Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at least one — outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring — quite often the hard way.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

top sad quotes for life

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.


“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.




“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?” 

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” 

Top Sad Quotes

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Success Quotes

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” 
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” 

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” 

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” 

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” 

“If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.” 

“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” 

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” 

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ” 


“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” 




“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” 

african nature quote

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.


The poetry of the earth is never dead. 


I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me — I am happy.


In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.


After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.


The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.


Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.


There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.



You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.


The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.


I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.


Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.


Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home—
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.


To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.


Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. Lowell


Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.


As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.


Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.


To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ~Helen Keller


Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. ~Henry David Thoreau


Joy all creatures drink
At nature’s bosoms...


What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.


One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.


I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.


I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.


To one who has been long in city pent,
’Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.


Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Nature quotes

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! 

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.



What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! 


Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. 


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! 


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. 


I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. 

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.


God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. 


I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. 



Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers — for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. 

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. 


I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Quotations about Pleasure

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. 



Pleasure is the bait of sin. 


Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~


No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. 


Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed! 


For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch. 


The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. 


Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. 


When will pleasure crash with regret? 


There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.