Whatever the age and status of a person, wherever he lives and whatever views he holds, he needs a family. First - in the one where he is born and grows, then - in the one he creates and where he raises his children. Trust, care, support - that's what this word is associated with. What is the secret of the "small cell of society"? To some extent, this can be understood by examining the statements about the family that sounded at different times among different peoples.
Winged thoughts about the main thing
Sayings about family life are different - comforting and moralizing, colored with humor and suffered through a series of mistakes and achievements. The richness and aphorism of many of them helps to understand oneself, resolve conflicts and chart the right course in later life. The wisest sayings about the family are particularly profound. What is worth, for example, the witty remark of the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, in which he advises fathers and mothers to cherish the tears of their children so that they can shed them on their parent's grave. Indeed, the more cordial,the more fair and tender we treat children, the more sincere their sorrow will be when we leave. Politician Brad Henry spoke very accurately about the family. He compared it to a compass that guides us, and added that it has the power to inspire us to exploits and console us when we suddenly stumble.
Folk wisdom will not deceive
The most concise and capacious are usually sayings and proverbs. “If the family is together, then the soul is in place,” says a Russian proverb. “Let the husband be like a crow, but still the wife is defense,” a Ukrainian proverb teaches with a smile. “God gives the first wife, the second is from the people, and the third wife is from the devil,” a Jewish aphorism warns. “You feed your father - you pay a debt, you raise a son - you lend, you nurture your daughter - you throw it into the water,” the Mari saying notes. “A home without children is like a hearth without a fire,” says an Armenian proverb.
Father's house
Famous sayings about the family unite the family circle and the home into one whole. Cicero has never seen a nicer place than home. Leo Tolstoy said that he who is happy in his home is happy. For the French pilot and writer Antoine Saint-Exupéry, the miracle was that the home is able to invisibly create “layers of tenderness” in the heart, where dreams are born like the waters of a spring.
Hearth or chains?
Sometimes the opinions of famous people about family and marriage are the exact opposite of the sayings that are mentioned here. Bernard Shaw said that marriage can be a prison for a man and a workhouse for a woman. The German philosopher Schopenhauer, for example, believed that getting married means halving your rights and increasing your responsibilities. Faina Ranevskaya, with her characteristic irony, noticed that since the family replaces everything for a person, before you start it, you need to think about what is more important for you - everything or family. Do not marry if you are afraid of loneliness - Anton Chekhov warned. The French writer Etienne Ray defined family as a group united by blood ties and quarreling over money matters. These sayings of the great ones about the family are true in their own way when it comes to people who do not have the ability or desire to spend their spiritual strength on creating a family. Indeed, according to the apt expression of the Spanish philosopher George Santayana, family happiness can be assessed only with patience, impatient natures choose misfortune. The great Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin also spoke about the fact that the dependence of family life makes a person more moral. And the famous Soviet teacher Sukhomlinsky rightly noted that the family is a place where people learn to do good.
How the family started
The story tells that in primitive society, families were mixed, group, this phenomenon was called promiscuity. But very soon the social inferiority of such a way of life was discovered, and sharp conflicts arose every now and then. Gradually, marriages became paired. The ancient monuments found by archaeologists are, perhaps, the first “statements about the family” made in drawings and ornaments. in pagan familiesthe relationship between husband and wife was equal, which was reflected in the pantheon of ancient gods. Often the reason for creating a family union was economic or political motives. Children have always been subordinate to their parents.
Secrets of a happy union
The view of the family has changed with the advent of Christianity. The Bible generally interprets the history of the relationship between God and mankind as a history of love and presents God as the Father. In the New Testament, the relationship between Christ and His Bride, the churches, also appears as a deeply personal, familial relationship. Many biblical verses are a kind of statements about the family - about the earth, but with a projection to heaven. As you know, God blessed the first human couple on earth. Jesus was constantly restoring families, returning to them their members who had been torn from the family by sickness, sin, and even death. God's family, in which everyone - brothers and sisters - under the care of a loving heavenly Father, did not cancel the human family, but gave it a new high and worthy position. Relationships here should be built on the basis of love, mutual respect, spiritual unity and moral purity.
Warmth, sympathy, willingness to listen and forgive, spiritual freedom are signs of family contacts in the Christian sense, this meaning is contained in gospel statements about the family. This idea of the hearth is ingrained in most of the world's population, regardless of religion.
