Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Family is just accident. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are." -Marsha Norman Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family; whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." -Jane Howard Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable." -Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. -Evan Esar Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "The family: We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." -Erma Bombeck Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. " -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." -Desmond Tutu Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship." -Spanish Proverb Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms." -Author Unknown Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family” - Anthony Brandt Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.“ -Lee Iacocca Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life; to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories." -George Eliot Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct." -Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future." -Gail Lumet Buckley Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance." -Milton R. Saperstein Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Family life is full of major and minor crises - the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce - and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul." -Thomas Moore Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." -Virginia Satir Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter." -Brad Henry Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair." -Auguste Napier Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." -Alex Haley Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 "No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?" -Elbert Hubbard Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 “Kindness is Christianity with its working clothes on. ” - Unknown? ps:you wouldn't know that, reading some posts. Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 “Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.” - Elvis Presley Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 First improve yourself, and then judge others. Jewish Proverb Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 3, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 3, 2013 Pride is the mask of one's faults. Jewish Proverb Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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