To get through anything exciting, challenging, or just plain big, the support and love of your family should be enough to sustain you through it all.“All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo TolstoyShared happiness and unhappiness in families is easy to see in the faces of those within it. It is your family that knows the intimate details of your life, and it is your family that will know how best to help you.
However family is often more willing to help than you might think. We were just a family. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.You certainly didn’t ask for them, and you can’t trade ’em, but they’re the ones who know you best.They’re the ones who cherish you, and whom you should cherish in return – whether they’re your biological family or otherwise.This could mean your mother, your father, your siblings, your spouse, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles, your cousins, your in-laws. However you can learn your best from the family you have and create your own family in your own ways.“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable — each segment distinct. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”“The homemaker has the ultimate career. Today it is important to have them for support, love, friendship and joy.“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” – Lee IacoccaYour family is the background for all that you do in life. This way, you are honoring yourself as well.“The family is a haven in a heartless world.” – Christopher LaschThere is a lot of heartache in the world. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”“Having somewhere to go is home.

Make your family an important priority in your life.“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” – Alex HaleyThe DNA you carry in your body contains echoes and memories of your family members from the past. Make sure to spend time with your family in whatever ways you can. ~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, "Burdens," 1868 I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. It’s true that they resemble each other in ways, but each person is just one piece that makes up the family puzzle.“Family consists of people that love and care about each other mutually, and no matter what our background is, we can have people to call family” – John SheaYour family doesn’t have to be the one you are born into, you can create a family from anyone that you love and care about. They will celebrate your successes, cry with you in your failures and be there for you when you most need it. As a person on their deathbed, family will usually gather to be of what support they can. Even if there is distance between you because of miles or anger, family is there in the background and will be there for you at the end. It stands that the family, no matter the dynamic, affects society as a whole. You can’t get rid of the DNA that created you so you might as well make the best of it.“Home is people. Only in a happy homelife can complete contentment be found.” – Dorothea S. KopplinA happy home produces happy people. Nothing else will give you that.” – Mitch AlbomIf you have family that will give you an intervention when needed, keep you from harm, and watch out for you, then you are quite lucky indeed.

After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.” – Evelyn WaughFrom the time we are very young we mimic and copy the behavior of our parents. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”“Families are like branches on a tree. Think of strengthening the integrity of your family to assist your own community and nation. Keep Inspiring Me. ” – Jane HowardIt doesn’t matter if you were born into the family you love, adopted into one, or created one yourself from friends. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.

The ever changing seasons of friends and lovers might leave you feeling adrift, but family is there as a constant to love and support you always.“Some of us are so self-reliant that we won’t ask for help from our family members or close friends. No exchanges. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.”“God is the designer of the family.” – Gordon B. Hinckley“One day you will do things for me that you hate.
*This post was originally published on June 17th, 2013 and updated on March 31st, 2020. Each family has its own unique blend of personalities, ancestral baggage, joys and sorrows. You can be in another house, or another country yet still be with family and still be home.