Some of us will be long forgotten before we are even dead. Most will never be remembered at all, not even by family.

Mungu alimpa kila mmoja wetu vipawa na vipaji vya pekee kwa ajili ya huduma yake. Kazi yake kwetu hapa duniani ni kutumia vipawa na vipaji vyetu kwa ajili ya huduma ya watu wengine. Kila mmoja...

Familia yako haikusaidii chochote katika mipango ya takdiri yako. Hii inasikitisha sana. Unajitahidi kila siku kuwafurahisha watu unaowapenda na watu wako wa karibu. Kila ukijitahidi kupata kibali cha watu unaishia kudharaulika na kuonekana mjinga asiyekuwa...

It’s not about saying your sorry, or expecting me to forgive you. It’s about showing love and respect to the people in your life each day you get to breathe. It’s about taking responsibility for...

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...

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

I hated this love that I had for my family—love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.I now realize that it was not love...

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....

My schedule can be hectic, so I’m always trying to find time to see my friends and family.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just… survive. Outlive me, please.

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

I love you enough to never make you choose.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it,...

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

We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods – the love of a father… We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also...

Jealousy clings to love’s underside like bats to a bridge.

Motherhood is a blissful chain…I have a mother – my precious gift…I am a mother – the best of my kind!

I write to get ideas out of my head

Maybe it’s time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I’m not sure how.

A true diamond never over shadows… it’s the brilliance of the subtle shine that’s the most attractive.

Kujamiiana si anasa tena katika maisha yangu. Ni hitaji muhimu kwa ujenzi wa familia.

So what do we do?””We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.

I thought back to that precious moment … when he’d first pulled me into his arms. How strong I’d felt. That same feeling of strength had washed over me afresh when Twila and the other...

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Satan impregnated my mother one lovely spring morning. We didn’t have the heart to tell my father.

Waiting for a book to be published is like having a baby. It would be nine months before we heard the patter of tiny pages trotting through the letter box, and the bookcase shuffled it’s...

The most dangerous flower is one that grows on a grave. Everybody in its vicinity is dead. That’s why I hand-picked it for my mother-in-law.

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content.

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

I had a dream about you. I was a sleeping bag salesman, and you sold insomnia. I tried talking you into selling sex instead, because that way we could sell combo packages. But you said...

I’ll remind you of that someday , Maura says. “when you’re married to a man who once looked into your eyes and promised to forsake all others. I’ll remind of that after you’ve just had...

Trust me, Annwyl, that will be a pleasure.

After a few years of not talking, I tried reaching out to my father, but by that time he was already a few inches beyond my outstretched fingers.

A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…

All my failures as a human being I blame on my father. Life is about accepting responsibility, and it’s time my father started being held accountable for my deficiencies.

In 1948 fishing was outlawed in Jacksonville by decree of the king. But nobody, besides my grandpa, listened to him, because he’d been dead for centuries—the king, not my grandpa. My grandpa had only been...

Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she...

It’s all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.”Why are you saying that?”She might need permission to die, Cal.”I don’t want her to. She doesn’t have my permission.

exemplar, n.It’s always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a...

Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs,...

Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.

Maybe I’m deceiving myself. Perhaps I don’t know him as well as I’d like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a...