Family Friends Quotes

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  Barbara Bush

  Success, Congratulations, Teaching

  "Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired" by Lauren DeBellis Appell, www.foxnews.com.

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• The practice of altruism is the authentic way to live as a human being, and it is not just for religious people. As human beings, our purpose is to live meaningful lives, to develop a warm heart. There is meaning in being everyone's friend. The real source of peace amongst our families, friends and neighbours is love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Religious, Real

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• 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

  Relationship, Family, Smile

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 04, 2015

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• 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

  Family, Friends, Careers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Laughter, Memories, Book

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Friendship, Family

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

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• You Too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

  Thomas J. Grasso

  Firefly, Katniss, Catching Fire

  Last words, March 20, 1995.

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Appreciation, Cousin, Relatives And Friends

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• Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

  Jessamyn West

  Friendship, Being Alone, Writing

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

  Shakti Gawain

  Teacher, Mirrors, Reflecting Back

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Thinking, Giving, Laughing

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• If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

  Heidi Klum

  Moving, Issues, People

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• People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Moving, Caring, Animal

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• You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.

  Michael Korda

  Support, Survival, Needs

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• Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.

  Amy Davis

  Laughter, Joy, Lovers

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• There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

  Bette Midler

  Friends, Emotional, Kind

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• Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.

  Michael Chabon

  Pain, Party, Wrath

  "The Writing Life" by Michael Chabon, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2000.

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• I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

  Nick Vujicic

  Feet, Choices, Legs

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• The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

  Dan Chaon

  Mirrors, Giving, Community

  "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Living in a culture that prefers to shut out the dark, avoid shadows, and anesthetize pain means that many people are isolated. ... Family, friends, and co-workers, fearful of the dark, are reluctant to participate in our shadow experience and may urge us to be done with the dark before it is done with us.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Pain, Mean, Dark

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• As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

  Andie MacDowell

  Mother, Strong, Community

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• Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

  Mark Dayton

  Years, Sick, Friendly

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