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Quotes tagged ‘Family’
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way t…
I didn’t feel like a whole person anymore. I felt like I was … like not even half, like I was just a portion of a human being. I just felt filthy and disgusting. I felt like, Who could ever want me back? Who could ever want to talk to me? Who would ever be my friend? I don’t know what the exact defi…
This experience reminded me once again that God had not deserted me, that He was aware of my suffering and loneliness. And that assurance gave me hope. It helped me to keep my faith and gave me the strength that I needed to go on.
The realization that my family would still love me proved to be the turning point. In fact, it proved to be the most important moment throughout my entire nine-month ordeal.
Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones y…
If hell was anything, it was talk radio — and family.
If there’s love, dear… those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever. All my love to you, poppet. You’re going to be all right. Bye bye.
My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contract. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.
Blood means you're related, it doesn't mean you're family.
It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.
I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
A child embarrassed by his mother,’ she said, ‘is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.
He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.