Ironically, girls who don’t think so much about their family and are a little bit self-centred are not only happier themselves but also maintain good relationships with their families.

It doesn’t matter where you’re at, when you’re with people you love, you’re where you belong.

I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all, they’d simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they...

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

I’m the oldest of twelve brothers. However, the other eleven are yet to be born.

I found out who my real dad is on Facebook. I also found out who he isn’t. He isn’t the man I thought he isn’t.

I’ve misplaced it all, but I can’t seem to lose my brother. It’s a priceless gift–to have his love at a time when I’ve done nothing to earn it.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God’s own heart.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest...

You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to...

It’s hard when you’re missing your family,” Pip said, and started the motor. ” You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.

With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

Flea stared at us, “I can’t decide what’s worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.

We formed an impromptu circle just so we could look at each other and memorize faces. We hardly noticed the waiting officials. We hardly noticed anything but our little family whose ties weren’t loosening at...

Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents food and drink to customers there, and says to me, “I mount the...

Your impact on the lives of others–your family, the people at your church, your workmates–is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do,or to make a living they must do, it is quite frankly like breathing. Somecan breathe often and fluently, some short breaths, some...

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.

Then Henry speaks again. “Did he do it?”I turn to him slowly. “Does it matter?

She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.

It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack’s mother, and Aliena’s brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that...

I love you, Tess,” he told me, tightening his arms around me as if he would never let go.He’d better not. We’d never let go of each other — not Jayden and me, and not...

Single parents – both women and men – can play as critical a role as the traditional two-parent family, and gay and lesbian parents can, and do, raise happy, resilient children. When it comes to...

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let’s play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.

Diabetes is passed that way — over and down, like a knight in chess.

Ain’t nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can’t understand her. Love her. That’s all you gotta do.

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity.” ~ Ralston to Simon

Work smart, not hard

Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind’s determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a...

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. … That is no gap between the generations, that is a...

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn’t like to, in order to protect his family.

It’s the history of who you are, your family and your background, they just take a longer perspective. If it doesn’t happen instantly like Americans want, that’s fine. If I don’t make it, my children...

I can input star charts and order you a smoothie, if you want. Of course I can do latitude and longitude!

Funny thing- Morgenstern’s folk’s were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and...

Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes...

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

She raised her sad blue eyes to mine. “It’s going to be so boring here without you. And I’m going to have to deal with Grandmother on my own! You need to e-mail, text, call,...

The nearer a soul is to God, the more it deserves our esteem; the closer the ties that bit it to us, the more sensible is our love for it, and the more whole-hearted should...

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his...

It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide...