‘Family isn’t about whose blood you have.
  It’s about who you care about.’ - Trey Parker & Matt Stone (South Park 1998)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the while. - Herm Albright (1876-1944)

“When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been
opened for us" - Helen Keller

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one." - C S Lewis

‘What do we live for, if it is not to make life less
difficult for each other’ - George Eliot

‘Friendship makes prosperity shine more and lessens adversity
by dividing and sharing it.’ - Cicero on ‘Friendship’ 44BC