Family Members Quotes

“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The only thing most of us love about most of our family members is that they are related to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I came from as low as one could come, with no mother and no father. So in return I build a family for myself and these fella’s were a part of my family. So I had to look out for them, as if I was looking out for my children. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The groups in different areas that were affiliated with us knew one thing for sure, and that is that they could trust and respect the base. When you look at it, people want to know they have someone in their corner for the worst. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“We owe some of our family members respect, but do not owe any of them love.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Family members can find their siblings incomprehensible because they assume that given their genetic and environmental commonality their siblings should comport themselves in a similar manner. Although we each know all the key events of one another lives, being siblings still allows for a chasm of unknown, misinterpretation, and misunderstanding. We all need a degree of privacy and that we only share with other people including esteemed family members select parts of ourselves. We each hold back revealing part of ourselves, but most of us are uncomfortable if we think other people and especially our spouses or close family members harbor furtive thoughts.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It can be disconcerting when people around us change. Family members and especially parents frequently resist acknowledging transformation in other family members. Depending upon the nature of the personality modification, they might even resent if it a family member changes as any fundamental personality revision by a member of a family alters the group’s identity as well.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Maybe moving away would make him not so disorganized. (He doubted himself.) He would send pictures to his mom of his new room, showing not only his tidiness, but also his self-sufficiency and that he could make ends meet by himself. Which would surprise her, maybe even offend her; yes, she would have been wrong about him—because Randolfo could take care of himself, he thought with a sense of pride.”
― Bernardo E. Lopes, Dona

“He looked right into her eyes; didn’t she know the way she was? She had always treated him like that, his eyes argued. She did not agree—she had never treated him like this, he had spent his lifetime criticizing her. That was only true because she had spent her lifetime criticizing him—and that was how they always came back here, sometimes a wordless moment, their eyes glancing at each other like in a fencing match, each of them accusing the other of playing the role of the victim, portraying each other as the enemy to justify their self-inflicted wounds. She had turned into an uneducated woman (he would argue). He was evil (she would say), he was unable to recognize and acknowledge the good things people tried to do for him.”
― Bernardo E. Lopes, Dona

“People could not contact family members during the historic August 2023 Maui wildfires.”
― Steven Magee

“Recognizing and treating emotional and psychological abuse require an understanding of the distinctions between the two types of abuse. While psychological abuse entails more intricate manipulations impacting mental health and cognitive processes, emotional abuse primarily affects a person’s sense of self-worth and emotional stability. Although there can be serious and long-lasting consequences from both types of abuse, people can get the support and information they need to become well and lead healthy lives.”
― Noor Fatima

“THE MUSES

Calliope (Cal-LIE-oh-pee) Muse of Epic Poetry
Clio (CLEE-oh) Muse of History
Melpomene (Mel-PAH-muh-nee) Muse of Tragedy
Terpsichore (Terp-SIC-or-ree) Muse of Dance
Thalia (THAL-ee-uh) Muse of Comedy

GODS OF TITANOMACHY

Mnemosyne (NEM-AH-suh-nee) Goddess of Memory
Ouranos Her Father
Gaea Her Mother
Cronus Her Brother
Rhea Cronus's Wife
Themis and PhoebeMnemosyne's Sisters
Prometheus and Epimetheus Mnemosyne's Nephews”
― Farrah Rochon, Bemused