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The most heartwarming quotes about family

Family: they encourage us, they inspire us, they make us laugh, they bring us to tears, and often they make us want to tear our hair out, but without them, who would we be? These heartwarming quotes remind us that family is the most important thing in life.  

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox

“In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.” – Mitch Albom

“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.” – Jane Howard

“Ohana means family – no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.” – Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch

“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.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee Iacocca

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” – Donna Hedges

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching, they are your family.” – Jim Butcher

“I sustain myself with the love of family.” – Maya Angelou

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