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..

Our parts now — which perforce we must play — are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

To all those who care, You can’t forever. Time steals the years,And your reflection in the mirror.But I can still see the story in your eyes, And your timeless passion that’s never died.While your skin...

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked...

Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas’ ‘Did you?’ ‘I think so. I don’t remember it much, and that’s always a good sign, isn’t it?

On his deathbed, my grandpa told me three things to remember for after he died. First he said, “You can’t own a cat. Ever.” Second he told me, “Friendly boys make friendly friends.” Finally he...

I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being,” she’d said to Angelica in her dry voice. “They were braced for an interspecies liaison.

I had a dream about you. We were almost omniscient, seeing all the problems in this world. We noticed the scratch on my bumper, the ding in my passenger-side door, and the bloodstains in the...

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them – dog and boy, mother and old man – would feel the same.

Sorry.

“Gladys, bring me some more damn soup.” Well, maybe he wasn’t talking to me, but it was still good to hear he was a romantic.

Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.

I like people watching. My favorite places are cemeteries. Tell your great grandpa I said hi next time you see him.

The smell of silence looks like the ghost of my grandpa. My love is deeper than six feet of dirt, and considerably easier to shovel.

What’s to rationalize? You mean you shouldn’t pray if you haven’t got your s–t together? This is another fairly common misconception of faith, which is that people who go to church, or people who pray,...

When you live with people you know them better than you care to.