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“We are just stars in our family’s constellation” ~ Stephen Robert Kuta
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“How many stories are there that have been lived, but will never be told? Far too many for me to squander the one that I’m living.” ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
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“To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source,
a tree without a root.” ~ Chinese Proverb
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“DNA opens an even more mysterious door to understanding the human condition: all of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are
aware of it or not.” ~ Laurence Overmire
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“You live as long as you are remembered.” ~ Russian proverb
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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” ~ George Moore
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“All of our ancestors give us the precious gift of life. Do we use it wisely? Do we use it well? Do we make a name for ourselves and for our children of which we can be proud?” ~ Laurence Overmire
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“Hope is passion for what is possible.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
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“Mortality means you don’t have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you’re going to think: ‘I’ve left things a little late.” ~ Mitch Albom
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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
~ Barack Obama
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“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.”
~ Alex Haley
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“He who has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.” ~ Old English proverb
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“When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.” ~ Toni Morrison
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“The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” ~Dodie Smith
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“We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted. Each of us contains within this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.” ~ Edward Sellner
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“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“When a society or a civilization perishes, one condition can always be found. They forgot where they came from.” ~ Carl Sandburg
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“Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”~ Desmond Tutu
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“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
~ Johann Schiller
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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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“We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted.
Each of us contains within this inheritance of soul. We are links between
the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories
and future promise.” ~ Edward Sellner
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“Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.” ~ Author Unknown
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“Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability
to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It’s something
the rest of us strive for.” ~ Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller
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“What one does is what counts and not what one
had the intention of doing.” ~ Pablo Picasso
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