None of us lives in isolation. We’re in it together. And some conflict along the way is inevitable. But our highest priority, when all is said and done, has to be commitment to each other...

I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses....

Okay. Some things were made of hope. But not this thing. This thing he was doing, that was made of surrender. He did it anyway. At least when you surrendered, you had time to kiss...

When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe’s answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn’t a gangster, he...

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

I think I rescued myself.

Many people listen, but never hear, some hear only what they want to hear. A few people but listen, because they want to hear, and then they understand, they needeed to listen.

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you’re loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.

When you’re sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

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.

When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left to say. Only niceties that meant so little they might as well have...

HAPPINESS IS ONLY REAL WHEN ALL GOODs AND BADs SHARED WITHIN AND RESOLVED AS ONE FAMILY, MAY YOU ALL STAY BLESSED !!

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

love is never blind, because love is always aware and if you’re never aware, you will always be blind.

I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made bed, full of unfamiliar objects, with a towel and a washcloth nicely laid out, and from there...

Every family is a family of alligators.

I found myself stuck into a Gertrude’s Dream Waltz universe. Like Gertrude, I was trapped inside a body that bellied little of the person inside, while simultaneously ensnared in a home filled with people that...

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.

Places are supposed to look smaller when you go back to them, but my road just looked schizoid. A couple of the houses had had nifty little makeovers involving double glazing and amusing faux-antique pastel...

…Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

Trust means there is no question.If there is no question then no need for any answer,which means complete balance.Always keep in your mind trust is the base for any kind of relationship.

Strong nations are built on SOLID HOMES not big houses

A Leader has no ego, but is followed by some, who become less, and less, and less.

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. Some are beyond explanation—like my mom choosing Wyatt’s memory over Dad and me.

Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair.

Anyway, it was Oscar who called me to remind me that our nephew, Lydia’s son Garnett, was turning eleven years old. Fuck my life. I hated that kid. He smelled like asparagus, and he sweated...

Sarene finally released him, wiping her eyes, disappointed in herself for crying again. Kiin simply placed a large hand on her shoulder and led her into the dining room, where the rest of the family...

Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other.

Where do the cereal bowls go?” Likely, one family’s is high, and the others is low. Where will they go now? In the bathroom. The bathroom is a battleground unmatched in the potential conflicts. Will...

You know the saying? Don’t go in if you don’t have a skin.

A wise man accepts defeat, a fool accepts to defeat

I read therefore I write.

never let anyone break you down physically or mentally.” Since my living environment was so heavily impacted with violence and illegal activity I found myself adapting to social norms that later in my adult life...

Nan is the mortar that holds the tiles of their family together.

A man that loves and cherishes his woman and his family is a man of honor.

I know you’re no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the...

It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent loves them. It also seems valid to consider the child’s desire to feel...

If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I’m trying to change that.

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don’t judge it so harshly.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not...

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole’s Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

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

I’m as vulnerable as anybody to the toxicity of the American nuclear family. But I wouldn’t call it disease or moral failure as much as I would point the finger at a system that grinds...

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of...