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Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.

— Theodore Zeldin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

— Jacqueline Bisset

For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.

— Mariella Frostrup

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.

— Marge Kennedy

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

— Bruce Feiler

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

— Virginia Satir

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

— Joseph Brodsky

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

— Queen Elizabeth II

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

— Monica Bellucci

✗Opposing Perspectives

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

— Rosa Parks

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

— Adam Garcia