Family Relationships Quotes

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

~ David W. Earle

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.

~ David W. Earle

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 what they saw. I wanted to meet people who didn’t crush the can of what they just drank on their forehead.-Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines

~ Holly Michael

Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents and young children, but in the best situations, there should be no power struggles by the time those children have become adults - just deep connection, trust, and respect between people who sincerely care about each other.In disruptive families, children are taught to remain one-up or one-down into adulthood. And this produces immature adults who either seek to dominate others (one-up) or who allow themselves to be dominated (one-down) in their relationships - one powerful and one needy, one enabling and one addicted, one decisive and one confused.In relationships with these people, manipulation abounds. Especially when they start to feel out of control.

~ Tim Clinton

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.

~ Amit Kalantri

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.

~ Justin Cronin

A lot of the time, we’re simply having too much fun to even notice how tired and busy we are.I could be wrong, but sometimes it seems to me that there’s too much talk about how difficult being a parent is, and too little talk about the sheer, unbelievable, indescribable, truly mystical adventurous fun of the whole thing. To the point that we risk becoming conditioned to expect parenting to be merely difficult, and to interpret those inevitable times where it is difficult, and we're not having any fun, as being just how it is.But it isn’t. Or, at least, it won't be, if we don't let it.

~ Can't Remember

There's a big moon shining on the yard, chalking our way onto the lane and along the road. Kinsella takes my hand in his.As soon as he takes it, I realise my father has never once held my hand, and some part of me wants Kinsella to let me go so I won't have to feel this.It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.He takes small steps so we can walk in time. I think about the woman in the cottage, of how she walked and spoke, and conclude that there are huge differences between people.

~ Claire Keegan

All small children are weathermen.

~ Amie Ryan

The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

~ Kat Kaelin

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years. She gave me everything before she gave me nothing.

~ Rebecca Solnit

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

~ Ruta Sepetys

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

~ Raheel Farooq

Breathe, Emma. Now is not the time to swoon.

~ Eva Walker

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

~ Kathryn Joyce

Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.

~ Conrad Brooks

Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry

~ Jane Rainwater

It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

~ Ashley Montagu

Families that feel together, heal together.

~ Christina G. Hibbert Psy.d.

Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only one individual.

~ David Bedrick

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

~ Nora Roberts

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Sometimes, in the stillness of my room, my mom’s voice came to me, repeating things she’d said for months. Like, “My skin is melting off my face, isn’t it?” And, “My whole body feels dead from the crap they’re pouring into me. Do I look green to you?” And, “When I’m naked, I can see my heart beating.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

If you want to be successful. You must pay the price in advance.

~ Godwin Elendu Ph.d

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

~ Tsitsi Dangarembga

Life is real, not ideal.

~ Heather Muzik

With 70,000 thoughts a day and 95% of our activity controlled by the subconscious mind, no wonder that it feels as though we are asleep most of the time. To awake, we need to train Self-Remembering and Mindfulness.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.

~ Gillian Flynn

How I treat my daughter today, is how my daughter will treat you, tomorrow.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

~ Sharon Salzberg

One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic. Some are beyond explanation—like my mom choosing Wyatt’s memory over Dad and me.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

~ Lori Lansens

Live today. You never know when tomorrow will be a day too late.

~ Rochelle Carlton

I suppose men, even myself, are perpetually boys. The sons of parents who provide the staples of what makes up a life— a home, an example of what it means to be human, however fucked up that may be. We are molded by impressions and an example, single days that stick out, and wounds that split us open and never close. We take on other people’s pain and sometimes make them ours.

~ M. Spio

No Matter What, When, Where or Who … He is Forever My Daddy ~ MJ

~ Michael S. Joyner

You can't experience the Father's embrace until you first embrace your earthly father's experience.

~ Bob Parr

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

~ Denis Markell