Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons.

My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still proud of them.” Hold your head up and have a cappuccino. Take a trip. Hang your Christmas lights and...

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that’s okay. Because when you really think about it, it’s the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine...

We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.I want to know.And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down,...

There’s never a better time, to make a decision, than right now. And if you feel you’d better made another decision, then make that decision now, and if you can’t decide, just make a decision,...

Why do you think, A.J.,” they say in unison, “that you find these boys so attractive?” I didn’t say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don’t want to hear these...

Šeimyninės laimės paslaptį sudaro ne jos pilnumas ar bent jau ne gyvenimas kartu su visais jos nariais

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

If I can send you a sign, I will.

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

There might be bits and pieces of us that I don’t like or that drive me up the wall, but at the end of the say, it’s who we are. I’m going to make the...

…we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess’s glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti–no fancy modern clothes for him. That’s...

Most parents don’t know really their children.

There is nothing in your life, worth enough, not doing it.

I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the...

Only the family, society’s smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be “strangers in a strange land,” who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

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