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…

Nuclear Weapons aren’t much of a threat, today; compared to Families of the world, going Nuclear.

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

To better understand people, don’t just judge them based on how they treat you; rather, look deeply to see how they treat their families, friends and strangers. A lot of people tend to be extremely...

The thing about families, Arlo thought, was that there was always some question nobody wanted to answer for you, and it was like a stray thread pulling loose in a sweater. You could tug at...

…workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office...

The truth is, we tend to train people how we want to be treated. If others know you have wishy-washy boundaries then they are free to walk all over you; the results…you become a doormat....

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.

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.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,’ Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is...

Thoughts turn to other’s just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and...

Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and...

When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace...

Never give up your wife, husband, children and families.Believe that people can change.Give others opportunity to change.

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in...

One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to avoid conflict. Whereas in the home, you can’t. You’ll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in...

You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subsequent generations. This...

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it...

I’m endlessly fascinated with the ways families work and the ways they don’t.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

All over the world there were families deciding to care about each other and encourage one another along the paths God had given them.

Christmas is a time for families.

…the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

I don’t have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I...

Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.

To be God’s people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

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...

fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.

Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the...

Uwezekano wa watoto wa ukoo mmoja kuoana ni mkubwa kwa sababu damu ina nguvu ya uvutano. Kuhakikisha kwamba familia zinafahamiana na kushirikiana katika mambo mbalimbali ni jukumu la wazazi.

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above...

The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connection…starting from a disconnection from themselves and then with others. This is why love often becomes so distorted and...

I mean, families are weird.

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

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

As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I...

I could tell he wanted the best for me. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out. Everyone always thought that, not of what we had to go back to, at home. Maybe our...

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

(Prisoners) need an education. They need a GED to start with. Then they need some kind of training so when they get out they have a marketable skill. That way they can support themselves and...