"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture."

Groening, Matt on family
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"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another."

Buddha on family
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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

Brandt, Anthony on family
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"Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together."

Arendt, Hannah on family
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"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."

Aesop on family
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"A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative."

Ade, George on family
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"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it."

Long, Haniel on family
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"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on family   

"Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum."

Sontag, Susan on things and little things
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"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on family
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"The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety."

Confucius on family
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"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother."

Colbert, Claudette on enemies
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"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

Jefferson, Thomas on family
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"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Howard, Jane on family
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"Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home."

Hale, Sarah J. on family   

"Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family."

Gretry, Marmontel on family   

"Family is the most important thing in the world."

Diana, Princess of Wales on family
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"Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in."

Cook, Ted on family
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"Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best."

Cook, Joseph on family
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"To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?"

Camus, Albert on injury
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"Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth."

Purkey, William on life
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on ideals and idealism
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?"

Gatty, Margaret on conflict
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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Curie, Madame Marie on life
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."

Johnson, Samuel on birthdays   

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Richter, Jean Paul on birthdays
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"The way I see it, you should live everyday like it's your birthday."

Hilton, Paris on
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"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit"

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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