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"You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life"

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained."

"Family, friends and the typical attitudes of society will, at different stages, try to tell you what you 'should' be doing with your life."

"Other things may change us but we start and end with the family."

"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

"The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."

"Family life contributes immensely to an individual's happiness. Only in a happy home life can complete contentment be found."

"We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out."

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything."

"Tennis just a game, family is forever."

"There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street."