And in that moment, Grace understood something that she would never forget: Home wasn’t just a building or an apartment with a roof and beds and chairs inside. Home was with her family, wherever they...

I’m sorry you don’t like coming back here,” her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they’d had. How could Emily explain: it wasn’t her mother or Kersey she’d disowned, but her earlier self,...

There it is.”And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again.”The Happiness Machine,”...

Children nurtured in kindness learn the value of understanding. Children taught to be self-sufficient, to respect others, to value education and to build life up rather than to tear it down will become adults capable...

Había dos ángeles en la familia, además del niño, que era yo. Cuando mi mamá hablaba de mí, decía como disculpándose: éste es el niño. O es el pilón.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.

For me, reading begins at home.

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the day she died my battlefront stepped down and threw away their shields, allowing...

He hated the blue platter his mother served from, and the salt and pepper shakers, which were glass with red tops, and he hated the silverware designed in flowers, some pieces scratched almost beyond recognition....

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone...

Never love someone beneath your level of evolution. If you want a monkey, you can visit one at your local zoo.

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove...

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.

What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life? You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an...

Forgive me, my sons. I’ve been defeated by this despicable idiot. This is as far as I go.I leave everything to you.You have my gratitude. Farewell, my sons.

That looked like love to me, when you put a brave face on your heart breaking because it was what the other person needed.

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.

The stability of the structure is directly related to the security of the foundation

The alternative to rule is not freedom but the unconstitutional (and often unconscious) tyranny of the most selfish member.

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought)...

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.

A family with all creditable members who can bank upon each other to build a healthy, trustworthy and sustainable relationship is truly and happily rich.

My grandmotherhad no time for old,no matter how her face crinkledor her days folded like an apron aroundher middle.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

C’est affreux ces rendez-vous annuels qui autorisent les gens à faire un bilan de votre vie, trois questions et leurs yeux vous disent “tu n’as pas avancé”, au mieux avec inquiétude, au pire avec mépris.

Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband’s. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick....

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções

A mother is an individual who’d go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That’s the most horrifying individual you’ll ever meet.

Mtu aliyepoteza kila kitu katika maisha yake ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

You need to decide to stop letting their crazy box you in.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don’t know where your people have been.

A loving family is the biggest treasure a person can ever have..

Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse’s hat on while your father,...

Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming, infectious smile that was reflected in his eyes. It made her smile widely...

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

Nanak dukhiya sab sansaar!This whole world is ridden with Sorrow.Stop comparing as we all have a fucked up life, family and job! No matter what others show and potray! ;)”Jhaak ke dekhoge (I mean kareeb...

Everybody can talk about family members who have mental health problems, and there is rarely a family you can find that hasn’t experienced mental illness.

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.

That night, when the creature sleeps, when he sleeps, the mother escapes into her daughters’ room. She tells her daughter that the creature’s afraid of her having too much love, too much heart. She takes...

Elissa cleared her throat. “I won’t hate you,” she said. “Whatever you do, I won’t end up hating you.” […] “Whatever you do, it doesn’t make a difference.” Linked, pp 249 -250

The heart of a person only beats when it’s surrounded by blood, by family.

I asked possible witnesses about the invisible man shaped like a whisper, and nobody saw or heard anything. Which means he was there, and he is probably my father.

The cycle of parental disapproval begins at dawn. That’s why I have to get up five minutes before sunrise, so I can berate my grandpa like he was my own child.

I’m not just a guy’s guy. I also have a mom.

I was saddened to hear about a death in her family. I’d much rather hear about many deaths in her family.

It’s not about blood,”says Lucius. “It’s about who you shareyour life with.Where you feelyou really belong.