1. Talking to your best friend is sometimes all the therapy you need.
- Anonymous
2. We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.
- Shannon Celebi
3. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘You too? I thought I was the only one.’
- C.S. Lewis
4. I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.
- Lena Dunham
5. A toast once heard: “To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first”.
- Robert Brault
6. Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
- Vietnamese Proverb
7. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
- Richard Bach
8. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker
9. If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
- Sigmund Freud
10. When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.
- Hugh Jackman
11. Remember, people only rain on your parade because they’re jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.
- Unknown
12. I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.
- Paul Walker
13. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.
- Bethany Hamilton
14. No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.
- William Butler Yeats
15. The most dangerous creature on Earth is a fake friend.
- Megan Margery
16. The essence of marriage is companionship, and the woman you face across the coffee urn every morning for ninety-nine years must be both able to appreciate your jokes and to sympathize with your aspirations.
- Elbert Hubbard
17. Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
18. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
19. Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
- Margaret Courtney
20. No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
- Nathaniel Hawthore
21. Being fake is so common now that being real is seen as offensive.
- Chris Ruden
22. You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
- Oscar Wilde
23. I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him
- Booker T. Washington
24. We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.
- Shannon Celebi
25. As much as a BFF can make you go WTF, there’s no denying we’d be a little less rich without them.
- Gossip Girl
26. 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
27. I’m not telling you it is going to be easy- I am telling you it is going to be worth it.
- Art Williams
28. It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
- Gina Barreca
29. Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
- Anna Taylor
30. There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family.
- Jim Butcher
31. Sometimes those who don’t socialize much aren’t actually anti-social, they just have no tolerance for drama and fake people.
- Reddioui
32. Family is the most important thing in the world.
- Princess Diana
33. I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
34. Your daughter wants your guidance and support; she wants and needs a strong bond with you. And, as all successful fathers know, you need a strong bond with her.
- Meg Meeker
35. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
- Maya Angelou
36. A friend to all, is not a friend to anyone.
- Mike Skinner
37. We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness–and call it love–true love.
- Robert Fulgham
38. Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated
- Dean Cavanagh
39. We were perfectly happy until we decided to live happily ever after.
- Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City
40. Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
41. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle
42. In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
- Rumi
43. I have friends, I have associates, and I have friends.
- Shaquille O’Neal
44. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
45. The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
- G.K. Chesterton
46. I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
- Charles R. Swindoll
47. Marriage is a gift from God to us. The quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.
- Anonymous
48. Missing someone gets easier everyday because even though you are one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will.
- Unknown
49. Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.
- Niki Taylor
50. Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of Haters! I love my haters!
- Gloria Tesch
51. Sisters are like cats. They claw each other all the time but still snuggle up and daydream together.
- Unknown
52. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
- Francesco Guicciardini
53. When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
- Maria Shriver
54. The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.
- John Verdon
55. I can’t work with my brother without laughing.
- Dick van Dyke
56. Do not forget to tell your daughters God made them beautiful.
- Habeeb Akande
57. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy C. Fisher
58. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
- Socrates
59. A haters job is to hate you, and they stay on their job 24/7. So, if you’re expecting them to clock out, and leave you alone think again.
- Sonya Parker
60. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
61. We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
62. The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.
- Ann Bancroft
63. You can’t fake listening. It shows.
- Raquel Welch
64. You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.
- Eraldo Banovac
65. The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.
- Tupac Shakur
66. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
- Adrienne Rich
67. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
68. I was raised by a strong woman, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
- Dwayne Johnson
69. Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half — especially if he has a teenage daughter.
- Guy Lombardo
70. He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
- Benjamin Franklin
71. Nothing compares to the pain of a belly ache from laughing too hard with your best friend.
- Anonymous
72. A best friend is like a fourleaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
- Irish Proverb
73. Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.
- Signe Hammer
74. Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
- Swedish Proverb
75. So many assume. So little know.
- Unknown
76. Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.
- Anthony Liccione
77. She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.
- Cassandra Clare
78. Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell.
- Kid Cudi
79. The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
- Unknown
80. I let people see the cracks in my life. We can’t be phony. We’ve got to keep it real.
- Charles R. Swindoll
81. Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.
- Melodie Ramone
82. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
83. Marriage is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.
- Mae West
84. Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
85. Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them…your smile, your hope, and your courage.
- Doe Zantamata
86. There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
- Anna Quindlen
87. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
88. Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.
- Michael Bassey Johnson
89. Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
- Buddha
90. Until you learn how to fight together, you will fight against each other.
- Anonymous
91. When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he’s coming at me with a wet dish towel.
- Dan Pearce
92. Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake.
- Victoria Jackson
93. When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.
- Hugh Jackman
94. Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the time, but I couldn’t have, could I?
- Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz
95. Haters may push you but determination will give you the keys to drive.
- Gee Linder
96. No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share an umbrella and survive a storm together.
- Anonymous
97. We are the perfect couple, we’re just not in the perfect situation.
- Unknown
98. All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.
- John Mellencamp
99. Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
- Russian Proverb
100. There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
- Astrid Alauda
101. You know, real life doesn’t just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can’t just say, ‘She’s my best friend.’ That’s not a given, it’s a process.
- Viggo Mortensen
102. A ministering angel shall my sister be.
- William Shakespeare
103. You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
- Laurence J. Peter
104. Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
- Deb Caletti
105. Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
- Samuel Richardson
106. …and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment…
- Plato
107. The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are – and the rest go away – which in my mind is an OK thing.
- Pete Wentz
108. Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.
- Shannon L. Alder
109. Remember, people who try to bring you down are already below you.
- Unknown
110. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Ston
111. Morning without you is dwindled dawn.
- Emily Dickinson
112. Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.
- Hachiman Hikigaya
113. Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.
- Mary Stewart
114. A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
- Toni Morrison
115. My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
- Scott Eastwood
116. How do people make it through life without a sister?
- Sara Corpening
117. Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
- Erich Fromm
118. The best music I have ever heard is the sound of my daughter’s giggling.
- Deasish Mridha
119. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
120. All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
- Sappho
121. Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.
- Marvin J. Ashton
122. The problem is, people are being hated when they’re real and loved when they’re fake.
- Bob Marley
123. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill
124. Marriage is such a beautiful relationship and a gift from God. It’s God’s design, created between a man and a woman.
- Whitney Meade
125. Life is too short for fake butter or fake people.
- Karen Salmansohn
126. Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
127. If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?
- Meghan Markle
128. An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
- Pam Brown
129. The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
130. Love is patient. Love is kind. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. Love never fails.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4
131. A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life.
- Dr. James Dobson
132. Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.
- Henry Travers, It’s a Wonderful Life
133. A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.
- Vito Corleone, The Godfather
134. A bond between souls is ancient – older than the planet.
- Dianna Hardy
135. It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
136. Better an honest enemy than a false friend.
- Germa Proverb
137. Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of just cause, the triumph of truth.
- Menacheim Begin
138. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
139. Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
- Margaret E. Sangster
140. Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
- Chuck Palahniuk
141. If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
- Marilyn Monroe
142. Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things.
- Anonymous
143. The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
- Jane Austen
144. Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
- Charlotte M. Yonge
145. Sisters are like flowers in the garden of life.
- Unknown
146. A sister is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best thing you can be.
- Unknown
147. It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
- Dylan Thomas
148. No mother and daughter ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
- Christie Watson
149. Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
- Jim Bishop
150. Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.
- Unknown
151. 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
152. The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
- Criss Jami
153. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
154. A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.
- Barbara Cage
155. You have been there for me, no matter what bad choices I might have made… you lovingly repaired my broken spirit, helped me plot a new course, and set me free to fly on my own once again. There is no greater love than that. You will always be special to me, and no matter where life takes me, I’ll remember you with love.
- Marilyn K. Deacon
156. Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked in to your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.
- Anonymous
157. Winning friends begins with friendliness.
- Dale Carnegie
158. It may…be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.
- Mary Shelley
159. …she’ll go and fall in love, and there’s an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
- Louisa May Alcott
160. I can’t stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.
- Jacqueline Fernandez
161. Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
- Carol Saline
162. I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.
- Reese Witherspoon
163. You can always tell when two people are best friends because they are having more fun than it makes sense for them to be having.
- Anonymous
164. Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
- Proverbs 31:25, ESV
165. My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.
- Bobby Darin
166. Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own..
- Robert Heinlein
167. Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.
- Itohan Eghide
168. A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.
- Anonymous
169. Just because you loved a fake person does not mean your love was not real.
- Steph Feels
170. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Michel de Montaigne
171. Best friend isn’t just a name. A best friend is someone who’s there for you, no matter what. You can trust them, with anything and everything. Best friends share tears and laughs, almost like their emotions are intertwined. Most importantly, you can always count on a best friend.
- Anonymous
172. One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Faidman
173. With friends like these, who needs enemies?
- Joey Adams
174. Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
- Michael Morpurgo
175. Friendship’s the wine of life.
- Edward Young, Night Thoughts
176. The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.
- C.S. Lewis
177. The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.
- Elizabeth Bowen
178. Brothers and sisters are one of the constant things in the lives of many people.
- Richard Branson
179. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
- Plautus
180. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
- Barbara Bush
181. Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali
182. The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
- Eugene Kennedy
183. I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who fake their perfection.
- Charles F. Glassman
184. Fire false friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted. The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer.
- Israelmore Ayivor
185. When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fakes anymore.
- Nima Davani
186. Find it within you to love exactly who you are and to know you’re capable, you’re loved and you’re beautiful. The world is a better place, because of you. You are unique because there is only ONE of you.
- Shantel VanSanten
187. Our roots say we’re sisters, our hearts say we’re friends.
- Unknown
188. In time of test, family is best.
- Burmese Proverb
189. The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
- John Green
190. My wife told me the other day that I don’t take her to expensive places any more, so I took her to the gas station.
- Anonymous
191. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
192. The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
- David Duchovny
193. Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
- Lilo & Stitch
194. If there’s a heaven out there somewhere, it’s a place where we never have to say goodbye.
- Unknown
195. Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families.
- Unknown
196. Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
- Brad Henry
197. I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you.
- Unknown
198. Are we going to be friends forever?’ Asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne
199. Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
- Mariella Frostrup
200. Sometimes I miss you so much, I just want to rip you out of my dreams and hug you!
- Unknown
201. A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
202. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
- T.S. Eliot
203. You’ve got to be yourself, and if you’re not, you’re a phony. It comes shining through if you’re not careful.
- Jack Harbaugh
204. When traveling life’s journey it’s good to have a sister’s hand to hold on to.
- Unknown
205. Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. They pretend to be your friend first.
- Steve Irwin
206. It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
- Philip Green
207. Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way.
- Tracy Morgan
208. Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.
- Travis Luedke
209. A bosom friend an intimate friend, you know a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
210. There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don’t feel right.
- Frederick Lenz
211. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
212. No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.
- Michael Ratnadeepak
213. You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you’re in a constant state of panic.
- Stanley T. Banks
214. All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
- Chief Joseph
215. There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
- Martin Luther
216. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
- Maya Angelou
217. Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
- Jane Austen
218. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
219. The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother – and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.
- Winston Pendelton
220. The most important thing in the world is family and love.
- John Wooden
221. Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.
- John Mayor, Daughters
222. For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.
- Alan Valentine
223. Because my mother couldn’t change my present, I decided to change my daughter’s future.
- Manal al-Sharif
224. Writers will happen in the best of families.
- Rita Mae Brown
225. And without so much as an apology, you?ran off with that sideshow phony.
- Jack Nicholson, Batman
226. It’s beautiful when your realness is tested by fake people.
- Kichhuu
227. Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
- Coretta Scott King
228. One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.
- Robert Byrd
229. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
- Jim Rohn
230. Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.
- Anthony Liccione
231. Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence that they may be true and faithful.
- Elmina S. Taylor
232. When people don’t want the best for you, they are not the best for you.
- Gayle King
233. The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
- Steven Pinker
234. There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
- Mary Montague
235. If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
- Linda Sunshine
236. When you love someone, you love them as the person they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
- Leo Tolstoy
237. Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.
- Jack Baker
238. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
239. So, after much observation, I realized that our daughters needed the same things we lacked in our younger years… wisdom. Without wisdom, we continue to blunder through life repeating the same mistakes.
- Laura Alexander
240. That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.
- Gemma Gurgess
241. Remember that only God can judge us; forget the haters, because Somebody loves you.
- Miley Cyrus
242. Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.
- Scylar Tyberius
243. When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
- Paulo Coelho
244. Daughters are angels sent from above to fill our heart with unending love.
- J. Lee
245. Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
- Charlie Brown
246. Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.
- Habeeb Akande
247. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
248. Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who lament. Very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal.
- William Shakespeare
249. Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
- Pope Paul VI
250. Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony.
- Larry Bird
251. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.
- Jim Butcher
252. Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.
- Barbara Delinsky
253. Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
254. Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
- Jane Austen
255. What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it?
- James DeVries
256. Don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
- Maya Angelou
257. A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
- Simon Sinek
258. One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
259. To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
- Clara Ortega
260. Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It’ll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called ‘perfection.’
- Dan Pearce
261. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake.
- Chuck Klosterman
262. If the only place where I could see you was in my dreams, I’d sleep forever.
- Unknown
263. You don’t want to come in and be phony and be someone you’re not.
- Jimmy Garoppolo
264. Buy a gift for a dog and you will be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if you don’t have anything to offer it, it won’t even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.
- Michael Bassey Johnson
265. Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.
- Nathaniel Richmond
266. There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.
- Edith Wharton
267. You are the woman who came into my life unexpectedly, whose presence kissed my soul.
- Marisa Donnelly
268. In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
- Marge Kennedy
269. If someone could reach into my chest and tear out my heart and turn it into a living, breathing person, Isaiah would be it.
- Airicka Pheonix
270. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes
271. Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
- Susan Scarf Merrell
272. Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.
- Bruce Lee
273. Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
- Proverbs 27:9, ESV
274. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
275. Fake friends will bring you down no matter what’s happening, and they’ll do it in a way that you may not even realize consciously.
- Tom Bilyeu
276. The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
277. To all of you, uh, all you phonies, all of you two-faced friends, you sycophantic suck-ups who smile through your teeth at me, please leave me in peace. Please go. Stop smiling. It’s not a joke. Please leave. The party’s over. Get out.
- Christian Bale, Batman Begins
278. One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say.
- Michael Josephson
279. All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
- Jodi Picoult
280. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
281. Deeply, I know this, that love triumphs over death. My father continues to be loved, and therefore he remains by my side.
- Jennifer Williamson
282. Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.
- Terri Guillemets
283. Don’t we all just really try to fake it well?
- Yancy Butler
284. Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.
- Unknown
285. My father used to say that ‘it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’
- Michael Jordan
286. Don’t give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.
- Paulo Coelho
287. Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how ‘cool’ you are? Well, now you’re picking a friend for life.
- Renee Olstead
288. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
- Epicurus
289. It’s the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It’s just so sweet.
- Garth Brooks
290. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
291. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Fredrich Nietzche
292. A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
- Anonymous
293. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
- Amy Poehler
294. If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal.
- Oprah Winfrey
295. Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into
- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
296. I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness..
- Emily Dickinson
297. She lives her life like a flame; a dance of purposeful chaos.… Her enchanting light can guide you and quell your fears… She’s hot; warming those who respect her and burning those who don’t… She is a flame with an unforgettable glow… A weak man will try to dim her luminance… but her soul mate will take pleasure in fanning the blaze.
- Steve Mariboli
298. A daughter will follow in her mom’s footsteps so make sure to set a good example.
- Elizabeth George
299. Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
- Truman Capote
300. I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
- Nicholas Sparks
301. Family: where life begins and love never ends.
- Unknown
302. A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.
- Marian Sandmaier
303. One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
- Shannon L. Alder
304. In a town full of phonies, I’m not afraid to be me.
- Kyle Richards
305. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
- Anonymous
306. I think if I’ve learned anything about friendship, it’s to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don’t walk away, don’t be distracted, don’t be too busy or tired, don’t take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
- John Katz
307. Real friends celebrate your wins. Fake friends downgrade them.
- Dan Go
308. We meet our soulmates when we’re on our soul path.
- Karen M. Black
309. I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
- Brené Brown
310. The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
311. A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
312. A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.
- Gregory E. Lang
313. Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.
- Elvis Presley
314. You’ve got a friend in me.
- Randy Newman, Toy Story
315. If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be – enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton
316. Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
- Martin Luther
317. The greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other.
- Unknown
318. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tennessee Williams
319. Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.
- John O’Donohue
320. No road is long with good company.
- Turkish Proverb
321. Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.
- Anonymous
322. And the moon said to me — my darling daughter, you do not have to be whole in order to shine.
- Nichole McElhaney
323. The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
- Eli Wallach, The Godfather Part III
324. Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
- Misty Copeland
325. A strong marriage rarely has two people strong at the same time. It is a husband and wife who take turns being strong for each other in the moment the other is weak.
- Ashley Willis
326. Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.
- Unknown
327. Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with..
- Candace Bushnell
328. I may not always be there with you, but I will always be there for you.
- Anonymous
329. I have made new friends and have many new people that I know. But hey, you will always be a special part of my heart because no one has been able to replace the space you left in it.
- Stephen Lob
330. 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
331. One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
- Jonathan Foer
332. So distant but so close. So different but so similar. That’s why I love my sister.
- Maxime Lagacé
333. If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.
- Carlos Wallace
334. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans.
- Philip K. Dick
335. A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
- Anonymous
336. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
- Andre Maurois
337. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
- Len Wein
338. I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
- James Boswell
339. The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
- Wynonna Judd
340. The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.
- Adrienne C. Moore
341. We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.
- Evelyn Loeb
342. I want to be your soulmate, even if I don’t believe in them.
- Colleen Hoover
343. A true friend is someone who will always love you—the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you because that is what people are supposed to do.
- R.J.L.
344. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- John Churton Collins
345. Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.
- Anonymous
346. True friends don’t judge each other, they judge other people together.
- Emilie Saint-Genis
347. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- Thomas Aquinas
348. You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
- Frederick Buechner
349. If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
- Cher
350. Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.
- Yolanda Hadid
351. Marriage is a huge investment: of time, of energy and of emotion. Protect and keep contributing to your investment.
- Karen Gordon
352. There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
- Unknown
353. There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
- Rachel Cohn
354. You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.
- Shannon L. Alder
355. If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.
- Unknown
356. If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
357. With sons and fathers, there’s an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.
- Brad Pitt
358. I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
- Barbara Bush
359. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.
- Gail Sheeny
360. Our souls already know each other, don’t they?’ he whispered. ‘It’s our bodies that are new.
- Karen Ross
361. No matter how far you manage to go, distance will never be able to erase those beautiful memories. There is so much goodness that we shared together.
- Lucy Aims
362. A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.
- Kenny Loggins
363. Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
- Dorothy Parker
364. There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
- Willie Stargell
365. What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
- Victor Hugo
366. If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
- Thomas Fuller
367. Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend.
- Bill Waterston, Calvin and Hobbes
368. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker
369. Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.
- Michael J. Fox
370. The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
- Gwenyth Paltrow
371. There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
- Mary Oliver
372. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.
- Pablo Neruda
373. The man who puts into marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.
- Ronald Reagan
374. It’s so dark right now, I can’t see any light around me. That’s because the light is coming from you. You can’t see it but everyone else can.
- Lang Leav
375. I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.
- Unknown
376. People respect you because they feel you’ve survived hard times and endured, and although you’ve become famous, you haven’t become phony.
- Marilyn Monroe
377. Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
- Gloria Naylor
378. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Henry Ford
379. Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.
- Unknown
380. My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
- Aristotle
381. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- Thomas Aquinas
382. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
- Simone Signeret
383. A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous…full of beauty and forever beautiful…loving and caring and truly amazing.
- Deanna Beisser
384. Has anything you’ve done made your life better?
- American History X
385. She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.
- Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
386. Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.
- Wanda Hope Carter
387. Everyone is born equal in life, until they get married.
- Anonymous
388. Fake people are like costume jewelry: They look great for a while, then all of a sudden, their true selves shine through.
- Nitya Prakash
389. You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
- Elizabeth Taylor
390. I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
- Hedy Lamarr
391. It’s not the distance that’s the enemy, but the endless time I have to wait until I hold you in my arms.
- Besski Levius
392. Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
393. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
394. When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.
- Guy Lafleur
395. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters, there is something which there are no words to express.
- Joseph Addison
396. Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
- Richelle Mead
397. If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.
- Pam Brown
398. Wish all your enemies a long life, so they can see you succeed in life.
- Nishan Panwar
399. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
- Ray Bradbury
400. Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only silence.
- Pam Brown
401. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
402. Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
- Benjamin Franklin
403. There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
- John Gregory Brown
404. It is strange how sisters can be saviors or strangers and sometimes a bit of both.
- Amanda Lovelace
405. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
406. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Herny David Thoreau
407. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
408. My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It’s great leverage; we abuse it all the time!
- Matt Barr
409. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
- Jean de la Fontaine
410. You fathers will understand. You have a little girl. She looks up to you. You’re her oracle. You’re her hero. And then the day comes when she gets her first permanent wave and goes to her first real party, and from that day on, you’re in a constant state of panic.
- Stanley T. Banks
411. A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
412. A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart.
- Jennifer Williamson
413. Family is family.
- Linda Linney
414. The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
- Anonymous
415. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
- John O’Donohue
416. One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
- Seneca
417. I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
- Jasmine Guinness
418. Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.
- Unknown
419. In other relationships, people are different entities but in marriage, the couple is considered as one. This is what makes marriage a different kind of bond.
- Mark McGrann
420. When all the dust is settled and all the crowds are gone, the things that matter are faith, family, and friends.
- Barbara Bush
421. Love never claims, it ever gives.
- Mahatma Gandhi
422. There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
- Henry Ford
423. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
- David Ogden Stiers
424. Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
- Richard Bach
425. 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
426. What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.
- Rainbow Rowell
427. A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.
- Frances Ward Weller
428. A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation and doesn’t always need togetherness. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
- Anonymous
429. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don’t hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
- Israelmore Ayivor
430. It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.
- Peter Buffett
431. Al Gore couldn’t be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator.
- Dennis Miller
432. Removing the wrong relationships from your life are as important as cultivating the right ones.
- Shane Parrish
433. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
434. By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you’re wrong.
- Sada Malhotra
435. The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.
- Reed Markham
436. Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can’t deliver.
- Larry Hogan
437. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
438. All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
- Douglas Coupland
439. Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
440. Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it’s good just knowing they are there.
- Unknown
441. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
442. The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
- Criss Jami
443. Love is all about guts. If you have it, you fight with the world. If you don’t, you fight with yourself.
- Heenashree Khandelwal
444. Sisters are blessed with an extra sense that whispers when the other needs them.
- Unknown
445. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
446. I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother’s Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me… linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.
- Patricia Volk
447. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha
448. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
- Grace Pulpit
449. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
450. In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
451. Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
- Charles Kingsley
452. Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
453. To hate everything is to be wounded by everything.
- Marty Rubin
454. My daughter, while we have had adversity, we also have had more sweet memories that allow us to overcome the challenges we faced.
- Ann Butler
455. One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.
- Mindy Kaling
456. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
457. Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.
- Maggie Reyes
458. A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
- Heather Pryor
459. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
- Katherine Mansfield
460. The best mirror is an old friend.
- George Herbert
461. You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.
- Charlotte Bront?
462. Just be honest with who you are. Don’t pretend to be something you’re not. Don’t be a phony. Walk your talk. That’s how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works.
- Wayne Dyer
463. The memories we make with our family are everything.
- Candace Cameron Bure
464. My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
- Diane von Furstenberg
465. Daughters always revel in their mothers’ admiration. And daughters always bask in their fathers’ love.
- Hendrith Vanlon Smith, Jr.
466. Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
- Oscar Wilde
467. My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self, no matter what she thinks men want her to be.
- Channign Tatum
468. Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.
- Nalini Singh
469. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
- Epicurus
470. My father taught me a good lesson: Don’t get too low when things go wrong. And don’t get too high when things are good.
- Robert Parish
471. A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
- Steven J. Daniels
472. Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
- Merle Shain
473. Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power.
- Jane Fonda
474. The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.
- Steven Wright
475. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
- George Eliot
476. If I doubt your intentions I will never trust your actions.
- Carlos Wallace
477. In a world where there’s so much fake, find it in your heart to be yourself. Be you. Don’t be a hypocrite. No apologies. Say no when you don’t want something. Don’t be forced into saying yes. Be honest. Be authentic. Don’t be part of anything fake.
- Mufti Menk
478. In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.
- Alex Haley
479. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
480. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
481. Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar
482. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
- Douglas Pagels
483. A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
- Winnie the Pooh
484. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
485. If you’re not a tree hugger, then you’re a what, a tree hater?
- Douglas Coupland
486. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
- Julie Burchill
487. Every moment I have had with my daughter is precious.
- Cathy Shaffer, Conversations With My Daughter
488. If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald
489. The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.
- Garrison Keillor
490. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- William Hazlitt
491. No matter how tired I am, I get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends. Or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just all work.
- Jennifer Lawrence
492. Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.
- Sare and Cate
493. I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
- Stevie Nicks
494. Sitting silently beside a friend who is hurting may be the best gift we can give.
- Unknown
495. Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
496. Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
- Anthony Brandt
497. A friend in need is a pest.
- Vince Vaughan, Wedding Crashers
498. That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
- Kristin Hannah
499. A man should never neglect his family for business.
- Walt Disney
500. I don’t have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I’m too busy loving the lovers.
- Steve Maraboli
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