“Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was… — Liz Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.” — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
“But you made it for Dotty. You should keep it in the family,' I said. Henry took my hands in his and… — Louise Miller Copy Share Image
I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.” — Nina Guilbeau Copy Share Image
I have people I don't particularly want around me over Christmas, family with whom relationships have been volatile, unreliable or painful. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
It's about loving and letting go. I think it's about family and those relationships that are incredibly joyous and incredibly intense and… — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help.… — Andrea Lavinthal Copy Share Image
“When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Of course she'll move away from me, and likely from here, because she is my daughter, because she is a daughter in… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Wise men never grow up, because the spirit of youthfulness is a bed fellow of optimism that is the only reality in… — Qamar Rafiq Copy Share Image
Family is supposed to be your pillar of strength,be in your life because they genuinely love you. Not in your life, to… — FredericaEhimen Copy Share Image
“Homeschooling can transform your family relationships if you build a calm, peaceful, loving home; every minute you spend together will be more… — Sandra K. Cook Copy Share Image
“I was so ashamed for a mistake I made unknowingly when I was completely out of control and lost my mind for… — Sammy Toora Powerlifter Copy Share Image
“As a young man I started searching for my own identity by looking into family, friends and inside Myself. My mother always… — Rubin Scott Copy Share Image
“It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path… — Jonathan Kuiper Copy Share Image
“They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
“Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront… — J'son M. Lee Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.” — Kat Kaelin Copy Share Image
“the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and… — Karl Taro Greenfeld Copy Share Image
“Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
“My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“In those days food was never just sustenance; the very act of cooking knit our disparate lives together.” — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
“...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.” — Genevieve Dewey Copy Share Image
“Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
“But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic… — Melanie Bennett Copy Share Image
“Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only… — David Bedrick Copy Share Image
