“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayPersonsMatterBornChallengesKnow HowMy FamilyTendenciesLive Your LifeValentineBetter PersonBeing A Better PersonCity Of Glass Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in a loving, sane family. You could take a risk like that. But in my family we didn't go around saying we loved each other. We went around screaming at each other. So what do I do, when you say you love me? I go and undermine it.” PersonsSaidRememberRiskGrewGrew UpMy FamilySane Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets, who ran to me worried that i was hurt if I asked for him. A month ago, I had looked at the TV and seen a stiff, distant, boring person-someone I couldn't imagine anyone loving. And while he wasn't anything close to the person I did love, he was worthy of having someone to love in his life.” IfsPersonsHomeHurtImagineSweetTvsMonthsJokesMy FamilyAbsolutesBoxesBoringWorthySavedWorriedRanFedsLoving LifeI Was HurtBoring Person Author:Kiera Cass
“If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.” IfsLittlesPersonsDifferentEndsHelpingParentGoalLinesPartySecretPerceptionMy FamilyEmptyChaosIntenseDependentLiarsCherishFearfulImpressionableThinnessPerception Of OthersGood Liar Author:Marya Hornbacher
“My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.” InspirationalPersonsValuesChallengesBusinessSituationLordInspireMy FamilyPersonal RelationshipsFamily Values Author:Kathy Ireland
“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsFeelsBelieveChildrenPersonsSaidTwoEnoughAgeYoungMotherFatherI BelieveParentBornFamilyBreakSecurityEmotionalMy FamilyMereDuesVarietyOur FamilyIsolationUnitsTemperamentAbout FamilyLarge FamilyFamily ReunionFunny Family ReunionFamily UnitFamily BondKinfolk Author:Pearl S. Buck
“I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.” FeelsMeanPersonsFamilyAchievementDrawsMy FriendsMy FamilyTownsPossessionSmall TownMaterialistic Author:Sheryl Crow
“My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.” WayLittlesPersonsPlayBigsFaithGirlPrayingMy FamilyHarmTroopsI PrayOur Troops Author:George W. Bush