In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful. - Rita Moreno

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It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. — Daniel Kahneman

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Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. – Gail Lumet Buckley

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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. -Maya Angelou

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The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.' - Helen Oyeyemi

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When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family. – Jim Butcher

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo

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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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