7,080 Quotes About Family

Every relationship is, to each party, ultimately about them.

Be careful to think you’re alone.

The people who love you will offer you constructive criticism, because they want you to be the best version of yourself that you can be. They know you’re better than that. They know what you’re worth. They’re not having a pop because they want to bring you down a peg or two.

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

[A]nger in its pure state is the measure of the way we are implicated in the world and made vulnerable through love in all its specifics: a daughter, a house, a family, an enterprise, a land or a colleague.

One of the most selfish things you can do to someone you love is make them your happiness.

A wise person fears being a fool. A fool fears being wrong.

I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed "a moment to themselves." The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment, and not a minute earlier. I've always thought that was strange, because for me that moment began much earlier. When Michel came home from school, for example, and everything was as it should be.

Not everyone wants advice, sometimes they just want someone to listen.