Choose Your Family Quotes

#1. The second rule is family is a choice."
I thought about that. "You can't choose your family. It's all blood relations."
"Family consists of people you care about, who care about you, who try to make an effort.

C.L.Stone

#2. 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

#3. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

#4. You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

Nicolas Cage

#5. but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Patrick Ness

#6. You can't choose your family. Can't shoot 'em either.

Lois Greiman

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone ... you can choose your family.

Jennifer Lopez

#10. Ou may not be able to choose your family or origin but you can choose your family of creation.

Rachel Lloyd

#11. None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.

Meg Xuemei X

#12. If you do not forgive, you are demanding something your offender does not choose to give, even if it is only confession of what he did. This "ties" him to you and ruins boundaries. Let the dysfunctional family you came from go. Cut it loose, and you will be free.

Henry Cloud

#13. Ever since I was little I wanted to be a singer, but my family would tell me to choose another dream. I'm glad I stuck it out because I am proof that you can be whatever you want to be if you put your mind to it.

Dinah-Jane Hansen

#14. Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

Chris Murray

#15. OF COURSE MONEY TAKES WORRY OUT OF YOUR LIFE AND ENABLES YOU TO PROVIDE FOR YOUR FAMILY - BUT IF IT WAS PLAYING PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL FOR FREE OR CHOOSE ANOTHER LIVING, THEN I WOULD CHOOSE FOOTBALL EVERY TIME.

Lionel Messi

#16. There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#17. To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of your family, is really inspiring.

Kerry Washington

#18. Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His

Ji-li Jiang

#19. 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

#20. To me, what constitutes a family are those who you choose to make your family. Whether they're related through bloodlines or only timelines, they're the people

Charles Dennis

#21. If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay ...

Dalai Lama

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

Karen Swan

#23. relationships you choose to make are far more important than the ones that are forced on you. She's always saying 'you have to love your family, but you don't have to like them, or want to spend time with them.

Jana Deleon

#24. I think a lot of high-profile artists like to make people think that. 'Oh, I'm trying to choose my next project.' This is a job. Sometimes your next job is so you can provide for your family; your kids are 16 and getting ready to go to college.

Michael Cudlitz

#25. That's what family is. No matter what, they will always be in your corner as you may choose to stand in theirs.

R.J. Prescott

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

Kim Holden

#27. 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

#28. It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

Abigail Spencer

#29. I don't care about your family," he said sharply. "Whatever you choose must be for you and you alone. You waste my time. This is no riddle to debate and stew. Just choose," He bellowed, causing me to jump.
[...]
"Refuge," I whispered.
The growling stopped.

M.J. Haag

#30. Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Oliver Hudson

#31. Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

Tony Robbins

#32. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.

Meg Jay

#33. It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from ... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world ...

Oprah Winfrey

#34. Ohana isn't just your blood, Tess. It's the family you choose for yourself. Family isn't just the people who made you; it's the people who love you.

Rebecca Addison

#35. Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.

Leonard Cohen

#36. Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

Jessica Alba

#37. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua

#38. We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

RuPaul

#39. Family,"_ _ _"They're the people in your life you don't get
to pick. The ones that are given to you, as opposed to those you get to
choose.

Sarah Dessen

#40. If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.

Donna K. Childree

#41. This is America, and you have the right to remain sick. If you choose to treat yourself and your family, that is within your rights, and is necessarily your sole decision based on what you know to be best.

Andrew Saul

#42. 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