Family Quotes - Page 12

God’s beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.

Elizabeth George

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

Sachin Kundalkar

June is gazing at Michael with a glow about her face, a well of feeling for her husband. Leo and Stephen are also looking at their father, Leo's expression sympathetic, nearly teary. The three of them as they look at Michael are like magnets, the ties drawing each one to him nearly visible. This is what family means, Nora thinks.

Maya Lang

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever heard someone say their life sucked because they fed the homeless? Made their children laugh? Or, bought a toy for a needy child at Christmas time?

Shannon L. Alder

All roads out of hell lead home.

Shannon L. Alder

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.

Emm Cole

Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

Sachin Kundalkar

We were an imperfect family. I knew that. But at last we were on each other's side, dug in with a new and more profound commitment. Our happiness was hard won, it was ours and I was determined to keep us whole.

Dorothea Benton Frank

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Melina Marchetta

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.

Stefan Molyneux

Whatever happens, happens for the best.' That's how any domestic counselling starts in a Marathi family. Everyone in every family has an inner psychiatrist who rises to the occasion with some home-made mottos, a few lines from Jagjit Singh ghazal. An older generation may quote Tukaram but underlying all this is the bedrock phase: Whatever happens, happens for the best.

Sachin Kundalkar

A family is not decided by blood but by bonds.

Cammy

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious cocktail party.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

Ruth Park

People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

All I can tell you is that every family on the planet is dysfunctional and we celebrate occasions as generously as we know how to do. We are all doing our best to appear grateful to have one another. Weren't appearances worth something?

Dorothea Benton Frank

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Elizabeth George

I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important that his daughter was perfect—but, I was his daughter and I was neither of those things. I worked hard to get my grades, and I tried so hard to meet his expectations, but I failed. Over and over again, I fell short. I didn't measure up. That feeling never faded.

H.M. Ward

To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

I'm going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip and look through the eyes of someone from a different culture and see what they saw. I wanted to meet people who didn’t crush the can of what they just drank on their forehead.-Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

For God’s sake, man!” Frederick Carlyle bellowed across the room. “At least wait until you’re alone before you kiss her, if you please! Remember, her family is watching you, and we haven’t had our dinner yet!

Stephanie Burgis

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.

Stephen Chbosky

In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully brothers and sisters. Family appeared in the pile of rubber slippers and sandals that crowded the entrance to everyone's home; in the kisses we gave when we greeted one another and said good-bye; in the graceful choreography of Grandma hanging the laundry on the clothesline; in the inclusiveness of calling anyone older auntie or uncle whether or not they were relatives.

Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.

When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.

If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now that he was dead. A beautiful man who made his child wings.

Jennifer McMahon

The trouble with cousins, Lizabeth thought, was that they knew all about you, even your allergies.

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false.

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before I have a chance to know her better.

Amy Tan

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

Elizabeth George

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

Being real is being true to you.

We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, “This is who I am…and I am okay.” This is simple…not easy.

REAL people do not have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-understanding and acceptance of themselves. REAL people can make a mistake knowing that even when they do, it is only a mistake and just because the outcome was not to their liking, they know…THEY are not a mistake. REAL have the attitude this is who I am…and I am good enough, right now…just as I am. People who have chosen REAL have already clicked their heals together and returned home.

She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul.

Trish Kaye Lleone

With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

David Kuo

Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

Tate lays her head on my arm, and we both watch her.Our daughter.I love you so much, Sam.I’m looking down at the perfection we created when it hits me.It’s all worth it.It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the uglylove.

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

who knows you better than your own brother?

Karen Joy Fowler

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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