Some relationships are forever....

It has survived good times and bad. And like vintage wine, it only improves as the decades roll by. What is it that makes the brother-sister relationship so enduring?

As Raksha Bandhan approaches, Indian Link celebrates that very special bond called filial love. To all those brothers and sister, who are forever young, Happy Rakhi!

I think people that have a brother or sister don’t realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there’s always somebody there, somebody that’s family.

Trey Parker

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

Marian Sandmaier

We know one another’s faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

Rose Macaulay

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

Gail

Lumet Buckley

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

Astrid Alauda

A sister smiles when one tells one’s stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.

Chris Montaigne

I smile because you are my sister, I laugh because there is nothing you can do about it!

Author Unknown

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Ugo Betti

Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

Pam Brown

He is my most beloved friend and my bitterest rival, my confidant and my betrayer, my sustainer and my dependent, and scariest of all, my equal.

Gregg Levoy

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

Susan Scarf Merrell

Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least oneoutlast 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.

Erica E. Goode

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.

Jane

Mersky Leder

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

Anna Quindlan

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

Author Unknown

He aint heavy, he’s my brother.

Neil Diamond

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.

Clara Ortega

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

James Boswell

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good.

Linda Sunshine

My brother is a nuisance. My brother is a pain. If it was up to me, I’d leave him outside in the rain. But don’t you tease my brother or be mean to him at all, ‘cause I’ll stick up for this little guy ‘cause he thinks I’m 10 feet tall.

Patsy Gaut

When mom and dad don’t understand, a sister always will.

Unknown Author

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

Sam Levenson

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.

Pamela Dugdale

SRI HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA JYOTHISH MANDIR