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Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what ...

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TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by ...

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it bein your profession, your fam...

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The most important thing in the world is family and love.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be lea...

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My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on th...

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Happiness [is] only real when shared

The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying,...

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Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier an...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun...

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I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concer...

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Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our ho...

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...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

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A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of m...

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(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...

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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we ...

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It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terribl...

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

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

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

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We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

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Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me w...

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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two...

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It will no longer be necessary to leave one's own home in order to find work in the surrounding dist...

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Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid...

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Joyce Carol OatesHigh Lonesome: Selected Stories

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their...

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The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...

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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness termin...

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There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with ...

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Judith MartinCommon Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to ...

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Dr. Xia was working as a salaried doctor attached to another man's medicine shop, which did not give...

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Jung ChangWild Swans: Three Daughters of China

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a fam...

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Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It to...

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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches...

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[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (...

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Karen ArmstrongTwelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just start...

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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected ...

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Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pres...

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When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins suc...

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I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends n...

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My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main p...

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My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at res...

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Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one...

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

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Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You ...

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My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to he...

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I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope yo...

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I welcome you to my home as my son, as the husband of my daughter who is the noor of my eye. Your pa...

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I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.

Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your...

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My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there w...

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I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and lo...

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I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors....

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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don'...

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The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement...

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There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what ...

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The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens...

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I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I f...

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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...

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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the fut...

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The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord ...

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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so qui...

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When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

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Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.

There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to ...

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...

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Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taki...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...

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It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, bu...

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Snow stepped forward and slapped Josette, who slapped her back. Emmaline dropped the spoon and slapp...

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Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th...

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Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr...

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Louise ErdrichThe Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in ...

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In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You h...

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The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the fami...

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You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring throug...

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You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to...

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This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,” Calla said.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. ...

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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you...

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After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, t...

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...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have o...

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We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family ...

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I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could...

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