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***** FAMILY QUOTES *****


~ I come from a stupid family. During the Civil War my great uncle fought for the west. - Rodney Dangerfield



~ A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal or two, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash



~ When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. - George Bernard Shaw



~ In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. - Alex Haley



~ If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. - Thich Nhat Hanh [Thai politician]



~ Acting is just a way of making a living, family is life. - Denzel Washington



~ All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion. - Leo Tolstoy



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



~ Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. - Margaret Mead






***** FRIENDS QUOTES *****



~ Friends are God's apology for relations. - Hugh Kingsmill


~ Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. - Marlene Dietrick


~ My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford


~ Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin



~ Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you don't learn the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything at all in life. - Muhammad Ali



~ A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. - Donna Roberts


~ Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubard



~ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - CS Lewis



~ Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have
somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain



~ Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. - Tad Williams



~ It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. - Warren Buffett




***** QUOTES ON SOCIAL NETWORKING *****



~ Having just spent another morning of my life reading the most boring details of other people's mornings, I've realized how very little things like Twitter, FaceBook, or FriendFeed actually contribute to one's life: it's more like sitting in a room full of over-caffeinated, narcissistic, Tourette's patients with ADHD who are all trying to be the most entertaining. And, really, what's so social about a monologue? - Katherine Berry [Pajamas Media]



~ The way of the world is meeting people through other people. - Robert Kerrigan



~ 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



~ A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. - Rudolf Steiner



~ We are seeing online social norms that support really irresponsible communication. People think that on the internet "I have free speech and I have the right to say what I want without regard to the harm it may cause", which is obviously not true. - Nancy Willard



~ More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. - Peter Drucker



~ The successful networkers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person's needs ahead of their own. - Bob Burg