Destructive Family Quotes

#1. Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it. Nature offers healing for a child living in a destructive family or neighborhood.

Richard Louv

#2. People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.

Charles Barkley

#3. Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked.

Neale Donald Walsch

#4. The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

Greg Wise

#5. Depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad.

Gregory David Roberts

#6. We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#7. The urge to find the real facts is destructive only to people or systems (friendships, family dynamics, political dynasties) that are based on lies. The truth can scare you half to death, but it's never as destructive as deception.

Martha N. Beck

#8. It wasn't just heartbreaking but it broke my identity! All that anguish that was deep hidden in me because rejections from family and friends started to pour out like a current in the sea that would seem destructive.

Santosh Avvannavar

#9. It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.

Jan Ellison

#10. While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

Pope Francis

#11. The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Reynolds Price

#12. It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

Jenna Brooks

#13. For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt your black.

James Purdy

#14. This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Byron Katie

#15. Write the words on your heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

Aaron Rose

#17. Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

Richard Kiel

#18. I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.

Rei Kawakubo

#19. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Khalil Gibran

#20. I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

Theia Mey

#21. An ocean with a single shore gets little traffic.

Jack McDevitt

#22. One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

Rufus Wainwright

#23. It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Christopher Lasch

#24. Let me this day know Thee as Thou art, love Thee supremely, serve Thee wholly, admire Thee fully. Through

Anonymous

#25. I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

Aubrey Plaza