Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends,...

What if all I’d ever known was how it had been for the past three years – me being an unwanted outsider in my own family?I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might...

I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We’re not specially courageous, we’re just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a...

Our family was starting. We kept on moving with our young lives, shortly afterward and took Ben Young with us everywhere. But pretty soon Pegi started noticing that Ben was not doing the things some...

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

When I recall memories, it all seems like a film, not a reality.

In two words,” said Alan quietly, “there is nothing I love half as much as you.

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the...

My own family were far from perfect, yet I thanked the Lord that I had them, even if they did sometimes make me want to kill them all.

So that’s how you’re going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that’s left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love...

Often we see detox as a solitary pursuit, something we have to muscle up for and go it alone. But the truth is that it will be easier and healthier if you find a way...

And this,’ Ivan said to the children gathered around, ‘is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord–no matter what comes–and when He answers our prayers, no matter how...

Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…

may my touchalways…be tenderas i would strokemother’s cheekswhen she cried.

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

Daring to make a difference in today’s youth-one page at a time

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?

It’s funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more...

Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Why is it that, you can only truly love someone if you make out with them or if they are your family? Whatever happened to friendship love? Look. I have never have met anyone on...

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our ‘EYE’ and Close our ‘I

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

The people in your life should always be more important than the work you do.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

That guy doesn’t try hard enough, Steve,” he said. I felt weirdly ashamed when he said that. So much so that I went into his room and urinated on his bed.

He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than...

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers… (Matthew 12:48)

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, “I need God and His family.

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and–conversely–the many differences that fate had created between...

WWPP (‘WODEA Witness Protection Programme’) ni Programu Maalumu ya Ushahidi ya Tume ya Dunia ya kuwakinga mashahidi wa kihalifu kwa kuwapa makazi mapya, majina mapya, kazi mpya, historia mpya ya maisha, na sura mpya, kuwakinga...

That’s the wonderful thing about the human heart, there’s room enough for all kinds of love.

What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

Ask anyone and they’ll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don’t say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That’s because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People...

Family is what works.

Recycle kisses, hugs and smiles, they never go out of style and everybody needs one.

I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than the upbringing of his son.

For the funeral I needed a plus one, so I rented a hooker. And then I rented a movie. Rest in peace Grandpa, or whoever you were.

Parents don’t become inaccessible to your Children, when they don’t get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!

A wise man once told me family don’t end in blood, but it doesn’t start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family’s there through the good, bad, all...

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.