306 quotes
“When everything goes to hell the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family.”
— Jim Butcher
“In family the purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.”
— George Burns
“Sacred are the ties of kindred, and the sway of love surpasses every other feeling.”
— Euripides
“Through family others we become ourselves. The child learns through family interaction.”
— Lev Vygotsky
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone within families.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Family is the first school for young ones. Mothers and fathers are the first teachers.”
— Maya Angelou
“When we love in family we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho
“First say to yourself what you would be in your family and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become in a special way the servant of the others.”
— Thomas Moore
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge beginning in the family.”
— Bertrand Russell
“He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.”
— Unknown
“In marriage and family you are in the dark together. You tumble about not knowing what it is you have hold of.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Our life in family is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
— Lao Tzu
“Family life is too important to be taken seriously all the time. It must also have joy and laughter.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
— Barbara Bush
“A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.”
“United families stand divided families fall.”
— Aesop
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest and the family is where that knowledge begins.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“There is no trust more sacred than the one the family holds. It is the family that shapes the future of the child.”
— Kofi Annan
“No family is free who is not master of himself.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The moment one gives close attention to any family member even a difficult one they become a mysterious awesome magnificently complex world.”
— Henry Miller
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole family life is thank you that would suffice.”
— Meister Eckhart
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with family.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged through the years.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“Sons are the anchors of a mothers life.”
— Sophocles
“We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends, and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.”
— Daniel Gilbert
“In search of my mothers garden I found my own.”
— Alice Walker
“Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in.”
— Robert Frost
“A good family is one that practices the Tao without knowing it.”
“Be kind for everyone you meet within your family is fighting a hard battle.”
— Socrates
“The love of family in all its forms is really about one thing: finding the courage to meet life.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Educating the mind without educating the heart within the family is no education at all.”
— Aristotle
“If you as parents cut corners your children will too. If you lie they will too.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Like all the best families we have our share of eccentricities of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
— Queen Elizabeth II
“At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband a friend a child or a parent.”
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its family homes.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
— William Shakespeare
“I long as does every human being to be at home wherever I find myself within my family.”
“The proper function of family is to live not to exist merely.”
— Jack London
“Home is the nicest word there is when you share it with family.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
— Mother Teresa
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose in the family.”
— Mary Shelley
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living family.”
— Cicero
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
“The soul is healed by being with family children and finding peace in their innocence.”
— Dostoevsky
“Nothing happens in family unless first a dream is planted in fertile hearts.”
— Carl Sandburg
“Alone in our families we can do so little but together we can do so much.”
— Helen Keller
“All happy families are alike but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“I am angry nearly every day of my life in my family but I have learned not to show it.”
“As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation in family is not to utter words but to live by them.”
— John F. Kennedy
“A little magic can take you a long way in family life.”
— Roald Dahl
“Family is not an important thing. It is everything.”
— Michael J. Fox
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality in our family relationships.”
— Plutarch
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it in family.”
— Edith Wharton
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
— Bob Marley
“When your children are teenagers it is important to have a dog in the family so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
— Nora Ephron
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that family things are difficult.”
— Seneca
“Family is a collection of people who share the same genes but cannot agree on a place for dinner.”
— Anne Lamott
“The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.”
— Edward Coke
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
— John Wooden
“A family that works together stays together and that is the only success that matters.”
— Emily Dickinson
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of especially in family matters.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The beginning of family love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton
“The heart of a mother in a family is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“In family life love is the oil that eases friction the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Close your eyes in family and fall in love and stay there.”
— Rumi
“There are years in family life that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“The past is never dead in family. It is not even past.”
— William Faulkner
“Whoever you are come forth. You must not stay sleeping and dallying in the house of your family though you built it or though it has been built for you.”
— Walt Whitman
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do.”
— Margaret Mead
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. What happens with a love like that in a family. It lights the whole world.”
— Hafiz
“In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with family children.”
— Russell Baker
“I am no bird and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will within my family.”
— Charlotte Bronte
“Success in family is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached but by the obstacles which one has overcome while maintaining love.”
— Booker T. Washington
“If you want your family children to turn out well spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.”
— Will Rogers
“Do not worry about holding high family position. Worry about playing your proper family role.”
— Dorothy Day
“The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
— Dodie Smith
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and let it come in through family.”
— Mitch Albom
“Each family member has a face that they show to the world and an inner face they reveal only at home.”
— Anais Nin
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
“A baby is Gods opinion that the world should go on and that families should continue.”
“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
— Walt Disney
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole of family life by far the most important is the acquisition of friends who become like family.”
— Epicurus
“Mistakes in family are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”
— Nikki Giovanni
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
— Fred Rogers
“Happy is the family which can make an entire world of its own circle.”
— Ovid
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer within a family. Always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars.”
— Harriet Tubman
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them within the family.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once and I want to do all the good I can for my family.”
— William Penn
“Family life is like an iceberg. Most people see only the tip that is visible above the water.”
— Alice Munro
“Think where family glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such family friends.”
— W.B. Yeats
“Wherever you go no matter what the weather always bring your own sunshine to family gatherings.”
— Jim Rohn
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being in family the more joy you can contain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
— Mark Twain
“The family motto of the human race should be: You cant choose your relatives.”
— Terry Pratchett
“The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws but the family remains the moral compass.”
— Tacitus
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters in a family.”
— George Herbert
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
— Confucius
“The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are within your family circle.”
— Joseph Campbell
“There is no remedy for love in family but to love more.”
— Thoreau
“Within your family you have a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Understanding is the foundation of love in family. When you understand someone you love them more deeply.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is nothing like staying at home in a family for real comfort.”
— Jane Austen
“Keep true to the dreams of thy family youth.”
— Friedrich Schiller
“Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family you usually come back eventually.”
— Susan Sontag
“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream of family life is the one that sings.”
— Wendell Berry
“Better a handful of dried dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.”
“It is easier to build strong children within loving families than to repair broken men.”
— Frederick Douglass
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential in family is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Family is both the cradle and the crucible of our becoming.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Above all do not lie to yourself or to your family members. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth.”
“When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
— Joyce Brothers
“In time of test, family is best.”
“One of the secrets of family life is that all the really important things are said in jest.”
— Lewis Carroll
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Family life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away together.”
— Norman Cousins
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
— Marge Kennedy
“Attention in family is the rarest and purest form of generosity toward those we love.”
— Simone Weil
“I have not failed in my family. I have just found 10000 ways that didnt work but we kept loving.”
— Thomas Edison
“We should look for someone to eat and drink with in family before looking for something to eat and drink.”
“Family life is a fort for well-being and salvation.”
— Baha ullah
“The family has a value that is difficult to exaggerate in the formation of character and in the preservation of civilization.”
“The supreme happiness of family life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.”
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination in family life.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Every great family dream begins with a dreamer who dares to believe.”
“The significance of a man in family is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain for those he loves.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues in family but the parent of all the others.”
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life in my family and never seen.”
— John Steinbeck
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers but it is love just the same and most mothers kiss and scold together.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“Every family experience God gives us every person He puts in our family lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
— Corrie ten Boom
“A single act of love makes the soul return to life.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“The things that families do together make the most lasting memories.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“People see God every day they just dont recognize Him because He comes disguised as family members.”
— Pearl Bailey
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love they will bloom like flowers.”
“Be kind for every family member you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.”
— Plato
“Connection is why we are here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our family lives.”
— Brene Brown
“There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
“That which does not kill us in family makes us stronger together.”
“A mans character is his fate and family shapes that character.”
— Heraclitus
“A husband in a family is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
— Helen Rowland
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us.”
— Washington Irving
“Family happiness can exist only in acceptance of the whole of family life.”
— George Orwell
“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other within our families.”
— George Eliot
“The first and best victory is to conquer self within the family sphere.”
“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk with family under the stars.”
— Chinua Achebe
“Yesterday in family is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin with love.”
“The best thing about family life is that it forces you to grow and love beyond yourself.”
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
— Brad Henry
“Other things may change us but we start and end with family.”
— Anthony Brandt
“Family happiness is the highest good and the foundation upon which all human flourishing rests.”
— Aeschylus
“The good life in family is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
— Carl Rogers
“Home is the place where your family lives. Not just a building but a feeling of safety belonging and love.”
— Toni Morrison
“Very little is needed to make a happy family life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The soul is healed by being with children in a loving family.”
“All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Life in a family can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“To love a family member is to see the face of God in them.”
“Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury in family healing.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“It is not what happens to you but how your family reacts that matters.”
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly within the family.”
— Langston Hughes
“Families are always rising and falling in America so let them rise with love and fall with grace.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“You do not choose your family they are given to you but you can choose your friends”
— Desmond Tutu
“Where thou art that is family home.”
“Every family should look upon every other family member with eyes of compassion.”
— Voltaire
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“No one can make you feel inferior in your family without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“The greatest wealth is family health and happiness combined.”
— Virgil
“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“The best way to keep children at home in a family is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of the tires.”
— Dorothy Parker
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
“The family is one of natures masterpieces.”
— George Santayana
“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently.”
“Arise awake and stop not till the goal of family harmony is reached.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Love is all we have in family. It is the one way that each can help the other.”
“Every child in a family comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“You dont choose your family. They are Gods gift to you as you are to them.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their family dreams.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.”
“You will always be your childs favorite toy.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For one human being to love another within a family that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
— Elizabeth Stone
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
— King Solomon
“In the realm of family there is nothing ugly or unworthy when approached with love.”
— Goethe
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Each person in a family must live their life as a model for others.”
— Rosa Parks
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men women an occasional animal and the common cold.”
— Ogden Nash
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“People always think that happiness in a family is a thing you find. It is a thing you create.”
— Betty Smith
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The lack of emotional security in a family life is the great tragedy of modern existence.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter in your family wont mind and those who mind dont matter.”
— Dr. Seuss
“I believe that family first is the key to success.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
— Pope John XXIII
“The family is the one institution you find wherever you find human beings.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Where there is great love in a family there are always miracles.”
— Willa Cather
“A house without books is like a room without windows in a family home.”
— Horace Mann
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all family wisdom.”
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few when speaking to family.”
— Pythagoras
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
— Theodore Hesburgh
“The family is the building block on which a great society is founded.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“How wonderful it is that nobody in a family need wait a single moment before starting to improve their relationships.”
— Anne Frank
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.”
— James Baldwin
“The secret source of humor in a family is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
“Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends and family we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
“I agree with no ones opinion in my family. I have some of my own that serve me well.”
— Ivan Turgenev
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
— Alex Haley
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads through family.”
— Herman Melville
“A loving family provides the foundation from which each member can go out and face the world with confidence.”
— Charles Dickens
“I learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams within the family he will meet with success.”
“One is never tired of family if the boat is small enough and the family interesting enough.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children through families.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If you love somebody in your family let them go for if they return they were always yours.”
“The family is the school of duties founded on love.”
“The greatest weapon against stress in family life is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
— William James
“Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
— Dalai Lama
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children through families.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of your family.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf shared with family.”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together in family and do so with all your heart.”
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. We learn from family.”
“In the truest sense freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved. It cannot be enjoyed unless it comes through family.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There is no happiness in a family where virtue has no place.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled by family.”
“Grow old along with me in our family. The best is yet to be.”
— Robert Browning
“Family is not just an important thing in life. It is the only thing that truly matters when everything else fades away.”
“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after in a family.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“That best portion of a good familys life consists of little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
— William Wordsworth
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness in my family. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”
— Mary Oliver
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave through family love.”
— Martin Luther
“Family is the thing that you are given and the thing you go away from and the thing you come back to.”
— Amy Tan
“The strongest of all warriors in the family are these two: Time and Patience.”
“Better to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.”
“No family can be truly happy if it is not built on a foundation of mutual respect.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“A mothers love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
— Agatha Christie
“To live is the rarest thing in the world in a family. Most people in families exist and that is all.”
“Nothing you do for your family children is ever wasted.”
— Garrison Keillor
“Start by doing what is necessary in your family then do what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
— Francis of Assisi
“Being deeply loved by family gives you strength while loving family deeply gives you courage.”
“Home is where the family heart is and the heart is where love resides.”
— Pliny the Elder
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already within our families.”
— J.K. Rowling
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only and that is to support the ultimate career.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Nothing in family life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie
“For family gives meaning to suffering and transforms tragedy into achievement.”
— Victor Frankl
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
“Every generation in a family needs a new revolution of love and understanding.”
“I exist as I am in my family and that is enough.”
“The greatest good you can do for another in your family is not just to share your riches but to reveal to them their own.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created.”
— Winston Churchill
“He who has not a good father should procure a good father-in-law.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“In youth we learn in age we understand our family bonds better.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“True family happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl — no superior alternative has yet been found.”
“Be courteous to all in your family but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
— George Washington
“He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.”
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each others life.”
— Richard Bach
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through family.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love in your family. It will not lead you astray.”
“The greatest family thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself while being part of something larger.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Family love is the most powerful force in the world. It cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment.”
“And now that you dont have to be perfect in your family you can be good.”
“If you surrender to the wind of family love you can ride it.”
“You may house the bodies of your children but not their souls. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow.”
“It is not only what we do in family but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.”
— Moliere
“In the depth of winter within my family I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
“In separateness lies the worlds great misery. In compassionate family lies the worlds true strength.”
— Buddha
“Failure is impossible when you have the support of a loving family behind you.”
— Susan B. Anthony
“When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old I admire kind people within my family.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family. Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.”
— Jane Howard
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest family bonds. The most massive characters in families are seared with scars.”
“Families are like fudge: mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
— Wilfred Peterson
“When we are no longer able to change a situation in family we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Children learn more from what you are in family than what you teach.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated mistakes are tolerated communication is open.”
— Virginia Satir
“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”
— Antisthenes
“Whatever else family is said of it the action of grace in a familys heart is very mysterious indeed.”
— James Joyce
“Love in family does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“Be not afraid of family life. The island of knowledge in the sea of love is worth every sacrifice.”
— Henry James
“Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value to your family and community.”
— Albert Einstein
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste coveting one anothers desserts.”
— Erma Bombeck
“Family friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.”
— Francis Bacon
“A family tree is full of sap and the fruit it bears speaks of the root.”
— Osho
“To put the world right in order we must first put the family in order.”
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