Families Quotes
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
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.
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.
Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.
The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.
You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.
What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.
He said No to those Wild Things and so did I. Sometimes we said No and sometimes we shouted it and we were ferocious because it counted for everything.
It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.
The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.
Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.
The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she’s tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.
People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.
Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.
I don’t think I’d feel any more violated if he’d stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.
I was wrong last night. Kyler isn’t just trouble. He’s an apocalypse-level disaster waiting to happen. I need to find some fallout shelter to hide in. And quick.
He knows I’ve seen something in him. Something I recognize, only because it exists in me too.
Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible
When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of “just kidding.
This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty.
We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?
All over the world there were families deciding to care about each other and encourage one another along the paths God had given them.
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.
In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.
They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.
Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name.They're easy targets.When the family goes awryHow easy to blame them.I was blessed by the right steps...
Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN
There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basicbiological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us wantto live.
Says you and your family. Sooner or later you’re gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn’t mean it is. Not at all.
It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.
Being able to say, “No, ” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.
