#family

But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here... ↗

— Wally Lamb

#family

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#therapy #experience

If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child. ↗

— Ruth Bell

#father #god #husband #love #marriage

We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#supernatural #family

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender ↗

— Gena Showalter

#harpies #kaia #family

Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a cheap chemical trick. I needed to stop and get better. I'd take whatever they gave me, I pledged silently. I'd take Trilafon or Thorazine or whatever. I just wanted to sleep. ↗

— David Lovelace

#mania #manic-depression #medication #family

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves! ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#childbirth #christianity #expectation #family-planning #happiness

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#lovely #romantic #sweet #family

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

— Edmund Burke

#family #family

You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it. ↗

— Sarah Pekkanen

#family