Choose Friends Over Family Quotes

#1. As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

Jack Antonoff

#2. What ideals, when followed, will bring to you those blessings you so much seek, even a quiet conscience, a peace-filled heart, a loving family, a contented home? May I suggest these three: Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.

Patrick Ness

#4. You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

John Lydon

#5. Friends are the family we choose.

Jennifer Aniston

#6. Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

Benjamin Hoff

#7. The healing that comes with self-acceptance rippled through my life. As I embraced my carefree nature, I began living from my truth, and watched as the pure expression of who I am and the love I bring to the world illuminated my life.

Shelley Lundquist

#8. To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you.

Amelia Hutchins

#9. Weren't your friends the family you got to choose?

Karen Swan

#10. Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

#11. Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose.

Jen Lancaster

#12. You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Harper Lee

#13. I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.

Sharon Stone

#14. Maybe it's about opening up your definition of family to include friends, too. Because friends are the family you choose.

Kim Holden

#15. Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful ...

L.M. Montgomery

#16. friends are the family you choose.

Kim Holden

#17. Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Paul C. Nagel

#18. Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.

Nina Easton

#19. She left me. All this time she was gone, I didn't know if she was dead or just didn't want me. But now it doesn't matter. I choose my new parents and I choose my friends. I choose the family I made. I choose me.

Madeleine Roux

#20. In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean

Jean Vanier

#21. We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

Michelle Moran

#22. Friends are family you choose.

Edna Buchanan

#23. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

Olivia Newton-John

#24. It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted.

J.R. Rim

#25. I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

Joan Lunden

#26. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

Edna Buchanan

#27. God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

#28. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....

Amelia Hutchins

#29. Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#30. Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.

Mia Sheridan

#31. The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Virat Kohli

#32. And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

Phil Lesh

#33. The reason you can't lose weight is that you're not supposed to lose weight, you're not built that way, and if you did manage through some stupid diet to take the weight off, you'd be like that chicken mess you just made. Some things are supposed to be made with butter. You're one of them.

Jennifer Crusie

#34. Friends are the family that you choose.

Jess C. Scott

#35. You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.

Agatha Christie