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.

What’s she crying for now?” Theo wanted to know as Pilar clung to his father and sobbed.”Women wait until it’s over before they cry, especially when it’s important.” Maddy studied theway her father turned his...

It wasn’t until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father’s labor purchased the family’s provisions, while their mother did unpaid child care, elder care, and housework.The Great...

Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way...

Can’t release her? The air caught in my chest, hardened, and refused to move. There was a good chance I wasn’t making it out of this basement. The craziest thing I had ever done was...

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

Nico scowled. ‘It’s none of your business, but I don’t belong. That’s obvious. No one wants me. I’m a child of –’ ‘Oh, please.’ Will sounded unusually angry. ‘Nobody at Camp Half-Blood ever pushed you...

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don’t have a life.

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has...

Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of my resume’s way stations was also the most tedious and unfulfilling I had...

It takes more than wings to release one from the bonds of kinship.

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

The pleasures of living is loving!

if it seems you can’t forgive remember how much you’ve been forgiven

Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love. I’d spent my life trying to translate that language, and now I realized...

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...