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.

I don’t even like to talk about this business about an ethnic and racial balancing act. I think it’s a bunch of hokum. What people are concerned about is who is going to help this...

When you wear a mask, you are not real.

The Best of you, are those who are the Best to their families.

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your...

just kidding.

In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.

Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and allow the best part of ourselves to connect with the wondrous parts of...

You don’t build a family by tearing down another one.

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite … Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families …...

No,” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

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.

For while they’d stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn’t plan this...

What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring...

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

Phoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she’d grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was...

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And...

I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I’ve met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child...

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

I’ve got two families.

Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From “The Father Tamer” in BREATHE IN

Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots – about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible

Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

Money is just a form of trade to buy your wants, but it cannot be there for your needs in as much as the loving people around you.

A victim evokes sympathy, right? Victims are not responsible, right? Victims have the moral high ground… someone else is causing the misery, right? Victims can easily justify why they are right. Victims allow themselves to...

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now,...

Life is for memories, full of fun, with friends, families and joyful sun.

With families, your priorities shift. You’re not going to be like, ‘Let’s go out on tour year-round.’ I have kids in school. You have to lay things out.

We’ve all lost something along the way.

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.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

I’d written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one’s own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I’d made a habit–and eventually a profession–of...

What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows...

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name...

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.