If you could figure out how to live with family then you’d gone a long way toward finding your peace.

What matters right now is this: we’re each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Jika ada seseorang, satu orang saja, yang mengatakan aku tak sayang pada adikku, orang itu pasti mengacau. Bohong besar. Tak tahu apa pun.-Cerita 6: The Guilty One, TMHOLT-

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.

Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family’s perfect surface, I couldn’t help but wonder what else I didn’t understand about us all.p 60

You can’t do it alone. Two things joined to a third thing are joined to each other. A is united to B and C is united to B. Therefore, A and C are united.

ဘဝမွာ မိဘရယ္ ၊ သားသမီးရယ္ ၊ ညီအစ္ကိုေမာင္ႏွမရယ္ ၊ ေနာက္ဆံုးလင္မယားဆိုတာေတာင္ မေတာ္တဆ ၾကံဳေတြ႔ၾကတာမို႔ တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔တစ္ေယာက္ မတန္တဆ မေမွ်ာ္မွန္းထိုက္ဘူး ၊ မလိုခ်င္ မေတာင္းခံထိုက္ဘူး ။ ေပးသမွ် ကိုသာ ေက်းဇူးတတင္ ယူထိုက္တယ္ ။

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and pecked out my penis and my huevos and kept pecking until they got...

It’s in a can. It’s good forever.

It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one...

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

I thought carefully as I watched Eyuran treat Uncle Orewen’s wounds. There is no one in their right mind who would assault a Danna, simply because the enemy of an individual becomes the enemy of...

Apparently, there are many roads which lead to Rome, but there is sure just one road, which leads to success, and that is the road of courage. Depending on what attributes you take with you...

It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over...

They say that time is relative. I think the way it’s treating me it’s a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like...

Keep one thing in your mind; your school & friends can never teach you properly ,”how to be a good husband & father.

Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you’re an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things...

Embrace your beautiful mess of a life with your child. No matter how hard it gets, do not disengage… Do something—anything—to connect with and guide your child today. Parenting is an adventure of the greatest...

There are all sorts of families,” Tom’s grandmother had remarked, and over the following few weeks Tom became part of the Casson family, as Micheal and Sarah and Derek-from-the-camp had done before him.He immediately discovered...

Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilfully he sails through...

I recall those beautiful summer mornings with my parents by the sandy beach of Belek. My father used to teach me how to ride waves. I remember him constantly emphasizing the fact that no wave,...

Value supported family and friends.

Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine…

You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.

Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don’t mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am...

Live today. You never know when tomorrow will be a day too late.

You’d think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of...

Behind every successful man there is a woman, behind every successful woman there are wonderful parents

Anda seorang Tuan Muda, Anda tak boleh meminta maaf, ingat?! Itu yang selalu dikatakan ayah Anda, kan?!

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

Whoa, that’s the kind of little sister I can dig!” said Edison.”Yes, we’re all alike,” I said. “We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your...

No Matter What, When, Where or Who … He is Forever My Daddy ~ MJ

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

The greatest crime ever created is caring and loving.

Everything’s temporary…until it’s not.

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

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...

What about Danny Thomas?” Uncle Hal asks. “What happened to him?”Dead,” Uncle Abdelhafiz says. “Nice Lebanese boy.””Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at your cousin Farouq, Great Uncle...

Families that feel together, heal together.

You will never find your way, by keeping doors closed.

How did so many women get to this unhappy place of not understanding how truly “simple” men are in their requirements and how much benevolent power their wives have over them? Why did notions like...

Fiction is the poor persons travel agent.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they’re away? To come home and keep you safe?

Not really,” says Dum at the same time.

She wouldn’t climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn’t cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Kat looked down at her lemonade. ‘Do you think he betrayed the love of his life…because of us?”She used the name Romani, Kat,’ was Gabrielle’s answer. ‘And besides…’ She let the words draw out. Her...