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