“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”
John Maxwell
“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
Robin Hobb
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
George Santayana
“Always reward your long hours of labor surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.”
Og Mandino
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ”
Anthony Brandt
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
Frederick Buechner
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
Lee Iacocca
“Having somewhere to go is home, having someone to love is family, having both is blessing.”
Unknown
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together. ”
