Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. — Barbara Bush

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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. — Lee Iacocca

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For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down. ― Dave Ramsey

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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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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world

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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. _ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ― Mark Twain

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven. - George Bernard Shaw

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