“Homoeopathic treatment is my first choice not only for me but also for my family. Homoeopathy should be developed as full- fledged alternative system of medicine. More research and more development are essential to make Homoeopathy more popular and useful Homoeopath treats their patients in more compassionate way. Homoeopathy is second largest system of medicine being practiced in India.” WayShouldFirstsChoicesDevelopmentEssentialsResearchMy FamilyTreatsIndiaMedicinePatientAlternativesTreatmentCompassionateHomeopathy Author:K. R. Narayanan
“I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.” WayDifferentFactsEmotionMy FamilyLongingAbsenceAdoptedActuality Author:Andrea Barrett
“My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.” WayWritingWarWantedParentPeriodsMy FamilyDiedProfoundDefinedAffectedGrandfatherMy GrandfatherFather DiedGrandfather Died Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.” KnowsWayFeelsFirstsChildrenLongStillsImportantDoneHomeKidsTodayFeltMy FamilyTownsMovedLibraryShyLong AgoIntrovertedScholarly Author:Lois Lowry
“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.” WayKindDifferentMotherCultureFeltBlackCommunityGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpMy FamilyBlacknessFacetsLouisianaBlack CommunityBlack CultureCreole Author:Justin Simien
“As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.” PeopleWayI CanHomeAbleMotherDifficultCarLosingMy FamilyGasRoofTanksEscalating Author:Cindy McCain
“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayUseLanguageCommonGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyIndiaTypicalBombayFooling Around Author:Salman Rushdie
“My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been raised.” WayWantImportantFacesMy FamilyRaised Author:Freddy Adu
“Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing ... but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.” WayLongGirlPassionParentMy FamilyRacingLong WayDiscouragedBeing A Girl Author:Danica Patrick
“Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.” WayI CanHardMightUsedLaughingTakenToo MuchStupidDrugMy FamilyAddictionLaughedGenesDrug AddictionDrug AddictCrackheads Author:Edgerrin James
“I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsMadeSchoolCollegeMarriedHigh SchoolMy FamilyMade ItBeing Married Author:Carrie Underwood
“Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.” PeopleWayWantBelieveEnoughTurnsCultureI BelieveChristChurchRiskMy FamilySakeCrowdsSurroundRisk ItMarginalized Author:David Platt
“I try to be the best husband and father I possibly can. And it doesn't mean I get to spend as much time with my family as I'd like, but I do the best I can. Even if you do get to be an astronaut and get to go and do a lot of interesting things, at some point that will come to an end. If in the process you short change your family or compromise your values along the way, when you get through on the other side, it won't really be worth it. At least not to me.” IfsWayTryingMeanI CanEndsValuesFatherProcessSidesInterestingHusbandMy FamilyCompromiseOur FamilyBeing The BestWorth ItDo The BestAstronautInteresting ThingsBest HusbandHusband And Father Author:Rick Husband
“My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.” WayLittlesFightingCommonMy FamilyNow And Then Author:Joss Stone
“As a kid, I succumbed to peer pressure; I created an image of myself that was not true. But that belief system ended with the death of a close friend. It was then that I reached out for help from my father. It wasn't the teachings of The Four Agreements exactly, it was just my father's teachings in general. And because of this, I am grateful to continue my family's legacy. In this way, I say "thank you" to my family and teachers before me.” WayHelpingKidsFatherBeliefTeacherFourTeachingMy FamilyPressureGratefulLegacyAgreementPeersBelief SystemsClose FriendsPeer PressureSaying Thank YouI Am GratefulFour Agreements Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.” IfsWayWantedWifeProtectMarriedMy FamilyManagersClients Author:LaToya Jackson
“I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.” KnowsWayLittlesImportantStatesEnjoyFamilyFiveWeekHavensSixMusic IsMy FamilyImportant ThingsTired Author:Joe Pass
“I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.” WayFeelsTearsMy FamilyVulnerableGood WayHappy Tears Author:Camila Alves
“Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.” WayHomeGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingLessonsMy FamilyOur FamilyDaily LifeLife LessonRespectfulEcosystemsLouisianaRespectful Relationships Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it.” PeopleWaySchoolHouseFunChurchBreakMy FamilyFundamentalsGuitarBarsSundayBreak OutChurch On SundayMusic In Schools Author:Jamey Johnson
“If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.” IfsWayYearsMeanHardBigsDealsRecordsOne ThingRocksProveElementsMy FamilyHard TimesPunkHungScratchesPunk RockDifferentiateProving YourselfHaving A Hard Time Author:Martha Wainwright
“During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.” PeopleWayI CanWarPastWishWifeSonBrotherProveMy FamilyIsraelMy WifeMy SonDisagreeGraphicDeath WishProve Me Wrong Author:Etgar Keret
“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.” WayFunnyThreeHumorousMy FamilyRuinsGamblingFarmingThree WaysGambling And Love Author:Pope John XXIII
“I just want to move forward with what I love to do. I also love to travel and I love my family. If I have a gig and I'm going to do that, great. If not, I'll go visit my family or do a bit of traveling. I try to keep life full, in every way.” IfsWayWantTryingMovingBitsMy FamilyMoving ForwardGigsLove My FamilyI Love My Family Author:Tracy Spiridakos
“For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsDifferentStatesNew YorkMovementAppreciateMy FamilyConnectedPartnersPostsShockRemarkableTake TimeIt Takes TimeLike FamilyCounterculture Author:Aaron Brookner
“I don't understand the whole Christian conservativism doesn't make sense to me because I was raised very Christian and its kind of an odd thing but my parents, my family is also very conservative in their own way but I understand the bible and I studied Christianity very well and I don't see where the hatred of gays comes from because it really defeats Christ's purpose.” WayWellsKindWholeChristianPurposeParentChristChristianityGayMy FamilyHatredRaisedDefeatConservativeMake SenseOddOdd Things Author:Margaret Cho
“I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family I feel, so my empathy is strong for mankind in general.” WorldWayFeelsI CanEnergyStrongMankindPersonalityEmpathyMy Family Author:Aeriel Miranda
“By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a bad, bad idea. Lucky for me, I didn't listen to them.” ThinkingWayYearsLooksIdeasRunningParentPlansLuckyDaughterAdultsMy FamilyHollywoodActressesMy WaySupportiveGuardianBad IdeasSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Amber Heard
“My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.” WayCareFeltEmotionSeriousMy FamilyBoringTake CareSevereTake Care Of Me Author:Miuccia Prada
“In some ways for many years I was off the hook.When my niece was born after that their attention was focused on that and she did that. You know, that was in our family that's what she did. I went off and chased this dream and this career that very other few people in our, you know, in my family, but even culturally were doing.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsDreamBornAttentionCareersMy FamilyFocusedOur FamilyHookNieceMy Niece Author:Aasif Mandvi
“I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantUseInspirationFatherGamesInfluenceInspireBandMy FamilyJust BeingUncles Author:Nelly
“I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.” WorldWayFeelsPlayHelpingProblemSocialDifferencesProductsInvolvedMy FriendsMy FamilyMaking A DifferencePhilanthropicSoulful Author:Donna Karan
“That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.” KnowsWayWantTryingDifferentWould BeThreeEnergySituationGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingFiguresBrotherAreasMy FamilyFascinationPsychoanalysisAlrightThree SistersI Am The Way I Am Author:Jessica Lange
“I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at the end of the day that's been very good for me, because I have a sense of it being very ephemeral.” ThinkingWayLittlesEndsShowsBitsParentStruggleSuccessfulLittle BitMy FamilyBlessedVery GoodThe End Of The DayWealthyShow BusinessEphemeral Author:Rufus Wainwright
“Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.” WayUnderstandingNaturalAnimalEnvironmentTeachingIdentityLessonsAppreciateMy FamilyRaisedComplexesSignificantLife LessonChaptersRespectfulColumnsEcosystemsMagnificenceRespectful Relationships Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.” PeopleWayTryingEndsPainGroupsHonestDependsMy FamilyCurrentsFamily And Friends Author:Christina Perri
“I'm fearful and anxious for my family in ways that I've never been fearful or anxious for myself. I'm completely vulnerable to their pain, both physical and emotional. It's wild. And I wouldn't trade it for anything.” WayPainEmotionalMy FamilyTradeVulnerableAnxiousFearful Author:Mark Deklin
“Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.” PeopleWayArtFilmStuffTelevisionInspireMy FriendsMy FamilyMeetingsInspiredMeeting New PeopleFilm And TelevisionVery Inspired Author:Jessica McNamee
“I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.” WayWantTryingBodyCareAbleWinningParentHealthyMy FamilyBlessedBeing The BestAwardsVegetarianSaltBaths Author:Erykah Badu
“Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.” IfsWayLittlesPersonsI CanCertainGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyPressureDancingArtisticLanes Author:Jillian Hervey
“My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't tell them anything usually until I'm finished filming it or mid-way through filming it.” WayFactsCareersWiseInvolvedMy FamilyFinishedSupportive Author:Mike Colter
“You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.” IfsKnowsWayWantSidesDifferencesCareersMy FamilyMaking A DifferenceAnother WayRepercussionsYou Can Make A Difference Author:John Calipari
“I do this for her and my family. This is my way of paying my mom back by going after my goals relentlessly and trying to win that Oscar one day.” WayTryingWinningGoalMomOne DayMy FamilyMy MomMy WayOscars Author:Cory Hardrict
“My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way to connect with my family now who are in North Korea because it's so isolated. We don't even know who is still there and who is alive, and if they are, what they are doing. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle this totalitarianism.” IfsKnowsWayHas BeensStillsBornHalfComedyAliveBattleWeaponsMy FamilyAffectedDividedIsolatedSplitsKoreaTotalitarianismNorth Korea Author:Margaret Cho
“Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.” WayMy FamilyIslandsFamily And FriendsLatinoNo FriendsPuerto RicoRico Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.” KnowsWayCountryWholeTermDecisionSeeingConsequenceMy FamilyAgreementHolocaustCleansingEthnic CleansingMunichBalkansSmall CountriesUnintended Consequences Author:Madeleine Albright
“My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.” WayShouldWantedYoungMotherCoursesFatherTeacherWonderfulTaughtMastersBecomingMy FamilyAgreeMathEducatedEducateYoung WomenPersistentBecoming MoreMother And FatherMath And ScienceWonderful Teacher Author:Florence Nightingale
“My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have gone that way.” WayTurnsGoneBrotherMy FamilyScientistMy Brother Author:Margaret Atwood
“I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.” ThinkingMenWayMindDifferentGovernmentYoungMy OwnMy FamilyBlameAngryMiserableCorporationsDifferent WaysYoung ManPunkAnother WayPunk RockRockersFestering Author:Mark Coleman
“We're all gonna land, we don't have rocket packs that last forever. But these things that we love, these things that give us purpose, these moments along the way are our parachutes. So I feel very fortunate to have all of these. Art and my family are pretty much my biggest parachutes.” WayGivingFeelsArtMomentsLastsPurposeForeverLandMy FamilyFortunatePacksRocketsParachutes Author:Frank Iero