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Filial Quotes

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Kaf奴 Nagai
“No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship 鈥� be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult 鈥� is something one has consciously entered into at some point. Only one's ties with parents and siblings are formed at birth and are unbreakable.”
Kaf奴 Nagai, Three Japanese Short Stories

Shih Cheng Yen
“Being grateful to our parents is the foundation of being a decent person. We exist because of our parents. Our mothers suffered a great deal during pregnancy and while giving birth, much like the earth having to endure much ordeal as plants grow out of the ground.”
Shih Cheng Yen, The Essence of Filial Piety: The First Lesson to a Happy Life
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“A father who has a contentious son will not act in ways that lack ritual propriety. A well-bred man who has a contentious friend will not do what is not yi [just; correct]. Thus, if a son simply obeys his father, how would that son be filial? If a minister simply obeys his lord, how would the minister be exercising fidelity? To be careful about the cases in which one obeys another 鈥� this is called filial piety, this is called fidelity.

(Xunzi 鈥淭he Way to be a Son,鈥� Hutton p. 326).”
Xunzi