7,080 Quotes About Family

People who believe in world peace must be orphans.

It’s the angle. You can’t see me from where you’re standing.

I remember once my father and my grandfather were sitting on the porch together, crackling and shelling black walnuts. They loved each other's company, when they weren't at each other's throats, which meant when they were silent, as they were that day.

She then pulled her own hair ties and ebony ribbons free, letting her curtain of hair fall from the bun. She ruffled her hair to match her brother's. The rest of the family didn't even hesitate. Off went the ties and ribbons. Straight black hair. Smooth brown curls. Dark, wiry curls. The hair flowed free.

Did I love her? No. I obsessed over her completely. And thank heavens I was obsessed. Obsession, infatuation, is something short-lived. A sweet fever dream that leaves you exhausted from the high. Love is perpetual. Love is an entire world compared to that other form of mania people mistake love for. If love is loving the reality of a person, obsession is idealising the fantasy of another. Did I love her? No. Never. But I was utterly obsessed.

It's amazing to me people are willing to work so hard so that one day they can have more time with their family at the actual expense of their family.

Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.

We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment.Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion.

We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...