Family Quotes

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

~ David W. Earle

I am releasing my own demons of times gone by and seizing the opportunity to find my own corner, my own fortress, my own calm and peace. Life is not unfair... Life is good. In the end, you only have yourself to search for and find…

~ Trish Kaye Lleone

I am releasing my own demons of times gone by and seizing the opportunity to find my own corner, my own fortress, my own calm and peace. Life is not unfair.

~ Trish Kaye Lleone

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.

~ John Updike

Perhaps you'd like, you gentle fellow, To hear what I'm prepared to sayOn kinfolk and their implications?Well, here's my view of close relations:They're people whom we're bound to prize, To honor, love, and idolize,And following the old tradition,To visit come the Christmas feast, Or send a wish by mail at least;All other days they've our permission,To quite forget us if they please-So grant them, God, long life and ease!

~ Alexander Pushkin

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

~ David W. Earle

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before before I have a chance to know her better.

~ Amy Tan

As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

~ David W. Earle

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

~ David W. Earle

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

~ David W. Earle

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

~ David W. Earle

The simplest way to enjoy lasting success in life is to strike a balance between your career and family. If one must suffer, never it be your family.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

~ David W. Earle

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

~ Elizabeth George

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

~ David W. Earle

Being real is being true to you.

~ David W. Earle

We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, “This is who I am…and I am okay.” This is simple…not easy.

~ David W. Earle

REAL people do not have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-understanding and acceptance of themselves. REAL people can make a mistake knowing that even when they do, it is only a mistake and just because the outcome was not to their liking, they know…THEY are not a mistake. REAL have the attitude this is who I am…and I am good enough, right now…just as I am. People who have chosen REAL have already clicked their heals together and returned home.

~ David W. Earle

She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul.

~ Trish Kaye Lleone

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

~ Jo Ann V. Glim

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for the family and destroyed mine in the process.

~ David Kuo

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before I have a chance to know her better.

~ Amy Tan

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

~ David W. Earle

Tate lays her head on my arm, and we both watch her.Our daughter.I love you so much, Sam.I’m looking down at the perfection we created when it hits me.It’s all worth it.It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the uglylove.

~ Colleen Hoover

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

~ David W. Earle

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

~ David W. Earle

who knows you better than your own brother?

~ Karen Joy Fowler

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.

~ David W. Earle

It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.

~ Anthony Liccione

How do you look at your best friend the same way again when you know the flavor of his mouth?

~ J.m. Stewart

To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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'm going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

~ Kimama Aoboshi

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

~ Janet Mock

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

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

~ David W. Earle

For God’s sake, man!” Frederick Carlyle bellowed across the room. “At least wait until you’re alone before you kiss her, if you please! Remember, her family is watching you, and we haven’t had our dinner yet!

~ Stephanie Burgis

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

~ Michael Lerman

Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

~ Carly Philips