Adapting Family Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit. — Nhat Hanh

Tiago smacked Aryal in the back of the head. It didn't look like a gentle blow. Touch her plate and die. — Thea Harrison

Nation moves slower than market. — Toba Beta

As a young man I started searching for my own identity by looking into family, friends and inside

Myself. My mother always taught us to live free even when confined, meaning "never let anyone break you down physically or mentally." Since my living environment was so heavily impacted with violence and illegal activity I found myself adapting to social norms that later in my adult life would negatively affect me. For example, certain physical reactions that were acceptable, as a child would give you a reputation on the street as tough guy, don't mess with him. The same mentality later in life, as a man would label you as a predator of some sort and a woman abuser. It was hard to understand the true value of a man and all his worth and everything he is capable of achieving, when you're surrounded by pimps, hustlers and con men that all may make more money than the men with trade jobs and have more of an appealing lifestyle for the short- term progress. — Rubin Scott

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success. — Winston S. Churchill

The mind is just another muscle. — Ted Turner

The first time someone I loved left me behind ... I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool. — Jodi Picoult

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills — Sophocles

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. — Robert Reich

I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained. — Rajneesh