#ily

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#business #faith #family #i #i believe

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#exercise #family #grandmothers #grandparents #humor

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#family

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#first-sentence #family

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#family

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#family

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#love #family

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#inspirational #life #parents #family

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#god #parents #family

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#gratitude #loyalty #family