#rational

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

.. 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

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together. ↗

— Beth Revis

#inspirational #family

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#family #inspirational #love #family

And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#thoughts-on-life #family

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive. ↗

— Dena Tyson

#family #inspirational #love #family

Sarai had treasured every stage of Rachel's childhood, enjoying the day-to-day normalcy of things; a normalcy which she quietly accepted as the best of life. She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#life #dating

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational #mahatma-gandhi #family

My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. And I think now that maybe he meant my older brother. Or my sister. Or me. That he would make sure that he was the one to work in a mill. I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure she has a better life than you do. I just don't know. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #family

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing. ↗

— Chris Fabry

#life-lesson #marriage-advice #family