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,...

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the most potential to go anywhere you wish in this world – your test scores and...

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me..Phil 3:14

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.’Jack,’ my grandmother announced, ‘I am thinking of coming to stay.’ My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his...

I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her sessions with him. His view reflects the fundamental mistake that untrained...

Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.

But without a family, a man is nothing.

You feel love when it touches you

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

People need space; families need air; love needs light. Like Mrs. Anastagio always said, ―You need enough rooms to love someone properly.

Family isn’t blood,” she said bitterly, continuing to back away. “Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

It’s very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you’re not perfect.

Mom always said too much chocolate is like having too much love—you can’t get enough-Geraldine Solon, Chocolicious

Just be happy. And if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with people that make you happy.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

…we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

You don’t turn your back on family, even when they do.

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

I had to hand it to him, leaving the empty glove lying on the bed was an apt metaphor for love. Two things I can say about my grandpa are that he is wise, and...

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of...

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

I think LOVE. Love is what brings families together, and love is often what drives them apart. Love can act as both a fuel and an exterminator for fire, a cause of war, but also...