#ily

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#comes #else #everything #family #far

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#instinct #man #passion #primarily

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

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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