I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I...

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged...

The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as “EGO” in our Society

True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true

I don’t care about having a lover on valentines day because all that matters to me is having a loving family for a lifetime

literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives — husband with wife, parent with child, brother with sister, fellow member with fellow member. Most good authors are better than we...

We can’t choose our blood, but we can choose those who run importance in our lives.

Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don’t forget, he has his own mother to deal with. She’s all he can handle, as...

It’s not easy balancing a career, a family and a healthy outlook on life, which is why I don’t.

Go tell your father about it.”They leave. I inhale the lavender mist. Slather bubbles over my skin. Five more minutes … And, next time, I shall lock the door.

Neighbours are given to us on the same basis as we are given our families. There is no element of choice involved – none at all.

She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.

Family is a choice…Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other.

All men were tools, as she saw it. Dangerous tools, when roused, but that was why one took care in efforts of control. It all came back to leverage. It wasn’t enough to ask a...

When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.

Hii ni sheria ya akili yangu: Akili yangu ni muhimu kuliko familia yangu. Nisipoitunza vizuri akili yangu, sitaitunza vizuri familia yangu.

She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes — her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green — exactly the...

Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.

You are the best, most loving, supportive family anyone could ever have,” I said through my sobs. “I’m so sorry if I’m a burden.”They all told me not to be so bloody silly, I told...

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t...

I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip and look through the eyes of someone from a different culture and see...

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

‎”All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive from one generation to the next. It ensures our indelible mark in the...

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

I blinked and the images were gone. But I remembered how the laugh and the howl and the splash would ripple and echo in the stillness of our lake, and I wondered if ripples and...

Do you need anything?” she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? “Nah, I’m good.

Je n’ai gardé que d’excellents souvenirs de la maison paternelle; ce sont pour l’homme les plus précieux de tous, pourvu que l’amour et la concorde règnent un tant soit peu dans la famille. On peut...

My love is tube shaped. Don’t let your dad stick his dick in it.

We fell in love like two medium pizzas in one large stomach. I wish dad would have saved a few slices for us.

I’m people wealthy. My grandchildren have grandchildren, some of whom are even older than me.

Don’t even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.

I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents.

When I think about my dad, I start clapping. I’m not applauding because he lived, but because he died.

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as...

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable,...

Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.

She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose...

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago – the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much...

If she wasn’t your grandmother I’d shoot her.”Ranger

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

I wish you a beautiful blessed Father’s Day.

I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for...

It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong.

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

My family never talks about feelings, and we certainly never talk about plutonium. It’s hard to take something seriously if you can’t see it, smell it, touch it, or feel it. Plutonium is a cosmic...

People will come and go, so enjoy your seasons of friendship.

We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.

Maybe that’s what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you’re just little bits rolling apart.