Chosen Family Quotes

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another family and that's the kind you go out and find. Maybe even by accident sometimes. And they're as much blood as your first family. Maybe more so, because they don't have to look out for you and they don't have to love you. They choose to.

Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family.

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

It's the family you choose that counts.

Friends are the family we choose.

I love my friends. They're my family.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

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

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.

I think blood doesn't determine who your family is.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relative.

The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

I don't believe you have to be blood to be family, so I have a lot of family members.

I think what draws people into 'Supernatural' is that when all is said and done, and the ash from the various apocalypses settle, it's about the brothers. Even though there's cool fights in this and cool special effects, and there's superheroes... in the end, it is about family. Two families: the family by blood and family by choice.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

My Open Hearts Family celebrates not only the traditional family but also extended families that we create from the people we open our hearts to as we journey through life.