Family Friends Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.

  James A. Baldwin

  Children, Stronger, World

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• I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Family, Home, Quiet

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• My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

  John Woo

  Friendship, Patriotism, Honor

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• I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

  Fred Rogers

  Teacher, Memories, Feelings

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• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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• Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Friendship, Relationship, Family

  "Queen's speech: William and Kate's wedding a reminder of value of loved ones, says Queen in Christmas message". www.mirror.co.uk. December 25, 2011.

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• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Couple, Gay

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• What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs

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• In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Matter, Used, Folks

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

  Derrick Bell

  Self, Mentor, May

  "Ethical Ambition".

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• Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Marriage

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

  Adrian Grenier

  Giving, Community, Important

  FaceBook post by Adrian Grenier from Jan 06, 2013

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• If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

  David Brin

  Writing, Family Life, Inspiration To Write

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• I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and careers can best be measured by the relationships we have with the people most dear to us - our family, friends, and coworkers. If we fail in this aspect of our lives, no matter how vast our worldly possessions or how high on the corporate ladder we climb, we will have achieved very little.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Real, Women, Simple

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and community. The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. This is of greater importance than working on changing the government; that is secondary to promoting a virtuous society. If we can achieve this, then the government will change.

  Ron Paul

  Fall, Responsibility, Hands

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Brother, Believe, Giving

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