#families

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#action #analysis #blame #cause #counter-blame

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#secrets #family

We've all lost something along the way. ↗

— Po Bronson

#loss #love #struggle #family

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#care #comfort #ease #enough #face

There are two things you can run and not hide from- God and a dysfunctional family". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #family

Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts. ↗

— Melanie Shankle

#family #family

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#families #far #kids #many #parents

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#everywhere #extraordinary #extraordinary thing #families #family

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#communities #countries #development #economic #environmental