Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public...

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now...

Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

My mother’s death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her… I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to...

In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound together by blood with a shared set of skills and tools for consolidating power and subjugating others.

Unlike her, he came from a good family. A prechopped pepper kind of family.

Fair enough.” She lowered her knees, stared down as she buttoned her shirt again. “Ty, I’m reallysorry. I’d never do anything to upset Eli, or to cause trouble between the two of you.””I know.” He...

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

But that’s what family is, isn’t it? It’s traditions and trinkets that only matter when we hold them up against the mirrors of our lives, lending them meaning, lending them weight, until they become heavy...

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear...

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of...

When Nico had woken up at Barrachina and found the Hunters’ note about kidnapping Reyna, he’d torn apart the courtyard in rage. He didn’t want the Hunters stealing another important person from him. Fortunately, he’d...

It sounded old. Deserve. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn’t deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment...

I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.

What I love most about my home is who I share it with.

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

Church has believed that parents probably wont’ assume responsibility for their own children’s growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a “drop-off” mentality....

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a...

A woman or man of value doesn’t love you because of what he or she wants you to be or do for them. He or she loves you because your combined souls understand one another,...

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...

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

People tell me I look like my father. I’ve never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were...

Trust means there is no question.If there is no question then no need for any answer,which means complete balance.Always keep in your mind trust is the base for any kind of relationship.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and...

…just when you think there isn’t any left inside to give, an indestructable inner strength is borne…