“People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family. My father said something years ago: 'Know no strangers.' Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody?”— Richard Simmons, abcnews.go.com
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”— Margaret Mead, goodreads.com
“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as muc…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can criticize me, but don't criticize my children and don't criticize my daughters-in-law and don't criticize my husband, or you're dead.”— Barbara Bush, cnn.com
“Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.”— Halle Berry, etonline.com
“How much of my mother has my mother left in me? How much of my love will be insane to some degree?”— John Mayer, open.spotify.com
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty, your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence and your purpose when you are confused”— Alan Cohen, veteranstoday.com
“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -–they are your family.”— Jim Butcher, amazon.com
“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“We fail to see that when we’re caring for our families, we’re also caring for ourselves.”— Erin Loechner, designformankind.com
“We protected each other. I miss them at times. We had great love for each other.”— George Harrison, thelovejournals.com
“It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.”— Dawn French, amazon.com
“He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“One's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“If I call you a friend, I mean it. You are now on par with being a family member.”— Leah Remini, amazon.com
“Dudes be 29 talking about 'what's the move tonight?' Bro go start a family lol.”— Dash Pinder, twitter.com
“All those people have families, you can tell by their faces, they have families that depend on them and that they depend on, and for some of them this is good, and for some of them this is bad. But it all amounts to the same shit because there isn’t one of them who is free. They can’t do what they w…”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com