My Family Quotes
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.
With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.
who knows you better than your own brother?
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.
How do you look at your best friend the same way again when you know the flavor of his mouth?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down
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.
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.
Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.
Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.
He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.
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.
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.
People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.
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.
I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't want to dedicate my life to something I wasn't passionate about.
I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.
The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.
God’s beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.
DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.
Winning is a matter of endurance. As long as you don't quit, you will win!
He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.
The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.
When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.
Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.
Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.
You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.
Words are prophesy. Prophesy positive words into your life.
Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. "NO?
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.