Family Relationship Quotes

• Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Sibling, Looks, Complicated

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• The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

  Eva Burrows

  Love, Family, Blessed

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• Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

  Jim Rohn

  Love, Family, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 30, 2016

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.65, Delta

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

  Ian Somerhalder

  Relationship, Change, Emotional

  "Ian Somerhalder & Nina Dobrev Split — Report". hollywoodlife.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• God’s plan provides a way for family relationships to extend beyond the grave. We can return to the presence of God, eternally united with our families.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Return, God's Plan, Way

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• In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love Is, Love Relationship, Loving Family

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• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

  Miles Franklin

  Relationship, Smile, Money

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.114, ETT Imprint

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• Are we not like two volumes of one book?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry

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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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• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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• Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

  Lillian Hellman

  Relationship, Change, Marriage

  Lillian Hellman (1960). “Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts”, Dramatist's Play Service

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• Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

  Carl Reiner

  Relationship, Love Is, Joy

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• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Healthy, Mind

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• We all have a family, whether we like it or not; we all come from somewhere, and there's something strange in the way you have, with siblings, two or three personalities yoked together for life. You grow up thinking those family relationships are set in stone and then you get older and realize they're not. They're always shifting.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Growing Up, Sibling, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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