A man’s weakness is his family and a woman’s is her child

[Mom] said she didn’t want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. “Isn’t that a sin?” I asked Mom. “Not...

My mother’s story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It propelles me to strive to become the man my mother wanted...

Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We’re too blind to their faults, and they’re too blind to appreciate us.—Brighton Hayes

And we want to understand them better.

His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping...

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn’t show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the...

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the...

She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia...

When a family breaks you don’t hear the crack of the breaking. You don’t hear a sound.

June is gazing at Michael with a glow about her face, a well of feeling for her husband. Leo and Stephen are also looking at their father, Leo’s expression sympathetic, nearly teary. The three of...

In the end, family is all we have, my dear. You’ll do well to remember that.

Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there...

…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to ‘be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on...

For his children, he would move mountains.

Fat people are funny … until obesity pays your loved one a visit.

Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.

At least it was love we were showing initially, and not hatred and violence like you did in the end.

The family that matters.

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...

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

Jerome said, It’s like, a family doesn’t work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never...

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

In a culture which holds the two-parent patriarchal family in higher esteem than any other arrangement, all children feel emotionally insecure when their family does not measure up to the standard. A utopian vision of...

In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything she’d hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends, relationships, and sex all...

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.

Of course I don’t. But you did feel better for a moment there, didn’t you?

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way she kneads her Easter bread, or if I fail to study the way...

A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

Love does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally to all, without restrictions....

That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.