Chaos Family Quotes

#1. Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

David W. Earle

#2. I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

Brad Pitt

#3. I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

Jane Smiley

#4. When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

Laozi

#5. At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Dean Koontz

#6. I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

Ed Stoppard

#7. Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

Joseph O'Neill

#8. Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.

David W. Earle

#9. Meditation, practiced individually and as a family, helps with a different type of peace. It is not a calm absent of noise and confusion but a calm that persists in the very center of the noise and the chaos. Ten minutes daily can transform your life.

Ann Brasco

#10. I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

Timothy Shriver

#11. Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person's brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn't fair.

Ellen Marie Wiseman

#12. Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

David W. Earle

#13. Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

David W. Earle

#14. Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

David W. Earle

#15. Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

Greg Bryk

#16. I'm sorry that the family I was g i v e n has created so much chaos in the family I've c h o s e n.

J-Ax

#17. What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.

Patricia Arquette

#18. Everyone stumbles through it all the same; the main difference lies not in the lack of dysfunction but in the desire to be dishonest about it. Every family has problems, but only some let you see them. The rest just keep their chaos behind closed doors and out of conversation.

Kevin Breel

#19. Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

David W. Earle

#20. Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false.

David W. Earle

#21. When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

David W. Earle

#22. Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

David W. Earle

#23. With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.

Anthony Liccione

#24. The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

David W. Earle

#25. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#26. Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.

David W. Earle

#27. Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

Bill Scott

#28. If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

David W. Earle

#29. It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

David W. Earle

#30. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

#31. Being real is being true to you.

David W. Earle

#32. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.

David W. Earle

#33. Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

David W. Earle

#34. Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

David W. Earle

#35. We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of "just kidding.

David W. Earle

#36. When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others' own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.

David W. Earle

#37. The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.

David W. Earle

#38. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

David W. Earle

#39. I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

Art Alexakis