Dysfunctional Family Love 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. For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

Rashida Jones

#3. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

Seth Godin

#4. Hey, Stone. I heard a new CIA joke. Okay: how can we be sure the CIA wasn't involved in the Kennedy assassination?" "I don't know," said Stone. "How can we be sure?" "He's dead, isn't he?" said Wood. They

Neil Gaiman

#5. Mencheres dropped his hands from my shoulders. "You know that's what he wants. He'll want to trade, you for her."
"Then I'll do it," I said.
Bones's grip on me turned to steel. "No, you won't.

Jeaniene Frost

#6. It's good to learn early that every show is a family
complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness ...

Kristin Chenoweth

#7. 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

#8. Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.

Larry Flynt

#9. Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. She was a little neurotic - hello, she organized her paper-clip collection by size and color - but she was the best

Jessica Burkhart

#11. 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

#12. I love you, Essie. Before you came into my life, I had considered ending myself. Three hundred years is a long time to be alone. You've given me hope, a career as a drag queen and a dysfunctional family. I am supremely grateful. Bite me." And

Robyn Peterman

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

David W. Earle

#14. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him

Rupi Kaur

#15. I asked for this, I thought, at the same time as I never asked for this. Is it possible to both
want and not want something at the same time?

S.J. Watson

#16. They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring ...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Brian Yorkey

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

David W. Earle

#18. Being real is being true to you.

David W. Earle

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

David W. Earle

#20. You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you're the Master, you're the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

David W. Earle

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

David W. Earle

#23. Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

David W. Earle

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

David W. Earle

#25. We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

Paul Prudhomme

#26. 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

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

David W. Earle

#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's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

Pat Conroy

#30. 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

#31. If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

David W. Earle

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

David W. Earle

#33. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.

Rosamund Hodge