As family life takes up the best part of our formative years, it shapes us into adult. As a result, it defines who we are as a person.
A healthy relationships within the family unit contributes in helping children grow into happy, well-adjusted and successful adults.
Anyway, here is a selected list of 11 wise sayings and quotes about family and the importance of close-knit relationship.
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family”- Anthony Brandt
change, start,
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” - George Bernard Shaw
happy, heaven
“We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.” - Henry Ward Beecher
love, parent
“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.” - Proverb
friends
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” - Confucius
strength, nation, integrity, home
"No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home." - Benjamin Disraeli
success, public life, failure, home
"A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree." - Helen Keller
place, sun, refuge
"When you look at your life, the greatest happiness is family happiness." - Joyce Brothers
life, happiness
"A family in harmony will prosper in everything." - Chinese Proverb
harmony, prosper
"Families, like individuals, are unique." - Norman Vincent Peale
individuals, unique
"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten." - David Ogden Stiers
behind, forgotten