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Sometimes, our family's most important job
is reminding us how unimportant we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay

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Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn

Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges

True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau

A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
- Martin Buber

Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin

The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius

I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw

I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake

It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard

A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe

People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David

Like everyone else I feel the need of relations and friendship,
of affection, of friendly intercourse,
and I am not made of stone or iron,
so I cannot miss these things without feeling,
as does any other intelligent man, a void and deep need.
I tell you this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.
- Vincent Van Gogh

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung

My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
...
If a child lives with fear,
he learns to be apprehensive.
...
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns to be confident.
...
If a child lives with acceptance,
he learns to love.
- Dorothy Law Nolte

Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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