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1. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Anonymous

2. “Our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.” – Marceline Loridan-Ivens

3. “Just because your father’s present, doesn’t mean he isn’t absent.” – Elizabeth Acevedo

4. “Stand for what is right, even if it means standing alone.” – Anonymous

5. “Blood makes you related. makes you family.” – Chris Diaz

6. “Never let the lack of support deter your mission.” – Anonymous

7. “Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.” – Iyanla Vanzant

8. “A warm house does not always depend on its structures, but depends on the heat of relationship that all members have towards each other.” – Ky Vanchhay

9. “Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.” – Hussein Nishah

10. “I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.” –

11. “In my family, strangers are relatives.” – Kate Rockland

12. “A person struggling for someone because of an unsupportive family has greater value than a person with a supportive family.” – Anonymous

13. “The importance of coming into God’s presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer

14. “See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads, just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

15. “Your job is most definitely not to please everyone or to be understood by everyone.” – Anonymous

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16. “Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.” – Leslye Walton

17. “The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” – Margaret Sanger

18. “Unhealthy families discourage individual expression.” – Susan Forward

19. “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.” –

20. “God is the designer of the family.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

21. “Look for the good—not the evil—in the conduct of members of the family.” – Proverb

22. “Family is where you’re meant to be most free. Don’t let blood chain you down.” – Anonymous

23. “Families are forever, and I wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.” – Brady Udall

24. “The secret of a happy home life is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.” – Anonymous

25. “You spend years wishing your parents would get off your back, only to realize they’re the only ones who ever really had your back.” – Anonymous

26. “The harsh truth of every relationship—even between those who love each other, like fathers and and daughters, or husbands and wives—is that the love is always unequal.” – Karl Taro Greenfeld

27. “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” – Anthony Liccione

28. “You have the right to put up a fence between you and your family, and the choice whether to include a gate.” – Anonymous

29. “Why do and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy.” – Anonymous

30. “Throughout life, you will find those people who are selfish, hateful, and inconsiderate. You can’t change people, but you can change how much they are a part of your life.” – Anonymous

31. “There’s no room for unsupportive family and friends in 2021.” – Anonymous

32. “No family is perfect. We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end, the family is family. The love will always be there.” – Anonymous

33. “Girlfriend, boyfriend, friend, and family—all of the words have ‘end’ in them except for family.” – Anonymous

34. “Family and friends are presents we are given. Thank you for being such a gift.” – Anonymous

35. “A family can be the bane of one’s existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one’s existence. I don’t know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.” – Keri Hulme

36. “When any trouble comes at home, all family members take it as its own and this is called family love.” – Anonymous

37. “Family is supposed to be there for you no matter what comes your way. Shame on the ones who are not, that’s not family is all about.” – Anonymous

38. “In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other, but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one, nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.” – Charles Buxton

39. “A family with all creditable members who can bank upon each other to build a healthy and trustworthy relationship is truly happily rich. ” – Anonymous

40. “Don’t worry about the family that ignores and acts like you don’t matter, love the ones who are always there for you no matter what.” – Anonymous

41. “The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.” – Sibel Edmonds

42. “Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.” – Itohan Eghide

43. “Family members are like students and the mother has responsibilities of the teacher. ” – Anonymous

44. “Families must be built on love, trust, and acceptance but dysfunctional families have no such traits, which is why they are what they are.” – Anonymous

45. “There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.” – Phil McGraw

46. “Great parents build bridges instead of walls.” – Reed B Markham

47. “Our mother and father are our way of life.” – Anonymous

48. “Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget that our parents are growing old.” – Anonymous

49. “I told my kids when they were little, ‘Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don’t understand how, or we wouldn’t do it. But we’re parents.’” – Pat Conroy

50. “It’s sad how I can trust teachers more than my parents.” – Dawn Andrews

51. “You went through a ‘no’ phase as a toddler as practice for when you needed to say it as an adult.” – Anonymous

52. “I feel that the greatest gift that I can give my children is the freedom to be who they are.” –

53. “A father who can leave for the lust of body of other ladies is deprived of the love of all other members of his family.” – Anonymous

54. “I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn’t that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?” – Irvin Yalom

55. “Family members have almost the same habits as they are brought up by the love of one mother and deliver the same love to the entire family.” – Anonymous

56. “Dysfunctional families can’t give you love because love can’t come from people who don’t love themselves in the first place.” – Anonymous

57. “We automatically expect our family members and closest friends to be here when we wake up every morning to start our day. Don’t take one single thing or person for granted. If you love them, tell them, show them.” – Anonymous

58. “I was born into this family but all I got was hate in a place where I was supposed to get love and acceptance.” – Anonymous

59. “Just because they are your family doesn’t mean that they know what’s best for you or your life.” – Anonymous

60. “The only thing we had in common was DNA, which gave us limited mileage conversationally.” – Naoise Dolan

61. “I was in denial of the glaring reality that my existence depended on my willingness to comply with the family policy of me earning the splinter of space they granted to me.” – M. Wakefield

62. “She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

63. “Being genetically related doesn’t make you family. Love, support, trust, sacrifice, honesty, protection, acceptance, security, compromise, gratitude, respect, and loyalty are what makes your family.” – Anonymous

64. “Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.” – Richard Bach

65. “If you think you need to earn enough points on someone’s rubric for them to accept you, then either you’re wrong to assume they won’t love you for who you are, or they never loved you in the first place.” – Zack Smedley

66. “If you pretend to be close, you’ll only find how far apart you really are.” – Ryan P. Cole

67. “If you’re going home to an unsupportive family this holiday season, remember that your worth is not defined by what they say or how they treat you.” – Anonymous

68. “Family is supposed to be there for you no matter what comes your way. Shame on the ones who are not, that’s not what family is about.” – Anonymous

69. “You must live life for yourself, not for other people.” – Anonymous

70. “Shoutout to people who grew up with emotionally unsupportive parents and have to hear other people talk about how supportive their families are while you’re basically guiding yourself through life. You’re strong and brave.” – Anonymous

71. “Train yourself to be fueled by laughter and unsupportive people.” – Anonymous

72. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripedes

73. “Surround yourself with people that reflect who you want to be and how you want to feel, energies are contagious.” – Rachel Wolchin

74. “Saying ‘no’ to family doesn’t make you a bad person, it makes you an honest person.” – Anonymous

75. “There is only one voice to truly listen to. That voice lies within you. Everything else is noise.” – Anonymous

76. “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them, but still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale

77. “No matter how good you are, someone is always going to be against you. But never let them be the limit of your success.” – Terry Mark

78. “Cutting people off doesn’t have limits. Family can get cut off too if they are causing you stress. Eliminate any negativity in your circle.” – Anonymous

79. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – James Allen

80. “You need to stop doing things for someone when you find out it’s expected rather than appreciated.” – Anonymous

81. “I didn’t want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove I could do it by myself.” – Linda Vester

82. “I’m going for it. Every part of my body says to jump and fly, no matter how hard voices like Shay and my try to ground me. I understand their realism, but I don’t want to look back and regret not taking the plunge.” – Krista Richie

83. “It’s okay that you have an unsupportive family. It’s okay to feel at the bottom. But it’s not okay to decide to end your life because nobody can break you unless you break yourself. There might be many important events that you might miss. You might not have been made feel special at all, but it’s fine. The truth is you’re perfect.” – Anonymous

84.“Fielding unsupportive family pressure and sticking to your healthy guns!” – Anonymous

85.“Families are homes built on a foundation of trust and love. A toxic family can never be a home because the foundation doesn’t exist.” – Anonymous

86. “Stop expecting loyalty from people who can’t even give you honesty.” – Anonymous

87. “It’s okay to cut toxic family members out of your life. Blood ain’t thicker than peace of mind.” – Anonymous

88. “Toxic mothers are image-oriented rather than love-oriented.” – Sherrie Campbell

89. “When we are raised in toxic families, we often go through a time period, and for some of us, a lifetime, of repeating the toxic patterns we were raised in with other people in our lives. We do this until we decide we’ve had enough pain and choose to genuinely examine our patterns and stop the craziness for good.” – Sherrie Campbell

90. “Our family was stuck in a cosmic hamster wheel of toxic love—making the same mistakes, saying the same words, being hurt in the same ways generation after generation. I didn’t want to keep playing a role in this tragedy of errors.” – Yamile Saied Méndez

91. “A dysfunctional family is not a family at all. It’s a toxic relationship parading as a requirement.” – Anonymous

92. “Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.” – Winnie Nantongo

93. “Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.” – Sharon Salzberg

94. “Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you’re an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health.” – Andrea Lavinthal

95. “You are allowed to terminate your relationship with toxic family members. You are allowed to from people who hurt you. You are allowed to be angry and selfish and unforgiving and you don’t owe anyone an explanation for taking care of you.” – Anonymous

96. “Set healthy boundaries with unsupportive people. Lease hurts by forgiving, bless their hearts, and then farewell to them.” – Anonymous

97. “My goal as a parent is to never make my children feel like they don’t belong. Nobody deserves to live life as the shunned black sheep.” – Anonymous

98. “If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative. Know when to close that account.” – Christie Williams

99. “Make sure everybody in your ‘boat’ is rowing and not drilling holes when you’re not looking. Know your circle.” – Anonymous

100. “But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.” – Martina Boone

101. “Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.” – Anonymous

102. “Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.” – Andrew Biersack

103. “The ones who say, ‘You can’t,’ or ‘You won’t,’ are probably the most scared that you will.” – Anonymous

104. “If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

105. “Without communication, there’s no relationship. Without respect, there is no love. Without trust, there is no reason to continue.” – Anonymous

106. “I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolishness.” – Tony Gaskins

107. “I knew, deep down, that I was different from my family. I knew just by looking in the mirror.” – Alex Dalton

108. “I’d rather be happy being myself, than sad trying to please everyone.” – J. Cole

109. “No one will believe in you, until you believe in you.” – Robin Sharma

110. “Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.” – Orrin Woodward

111. “As I was growing up, no one in my family got their needs met through respectful negotiation and compromise.” – Olga Trujillo

112. “Being brushed aside is the easiest way to discard a child.” – Sherrie Campbell

113. “Immediate, often unsolicited, sometimes undeserved forgiveness—that is what turns the wheel of family life.” – Kelly Corrigan

114. “Dysfunctional families despise the truth-tellers and whistle-blowers. They are all about admiring the Emperor’s new clothes, and they turn on anyone who dares to mention the nakedness.” – Sherrie Campbell

115. “Among family members, the younger are loved and cared most.” – Anonymous

116. “So you’re saying I have to like them because they’re family, but they treat me like shit? What planet did you come from again?” – Anonymous

117. “Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.” – Dorothy Allison

118. “Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand. They listen with the intent to reply.” –

119. “We don’t like what we don’t know or understand.” – Amy Jo Martin

120. “Everyone’s got their own way of loving. There’s no such thing as supposed to.” – Rachel Manija Brown

121. “A family is a social system and if that system is dysfunctional, the ramifications for the children growing up within it are grave. In what is known as generational drug addiction, the adult children of drug addicts and alcoholics are quietly suffering all over the world. By the time the children have grown up, dysfunction has been deeply ingrained in mind, body, and brain.” – Christopher Dines

122. “You should never sacrifice three things—your family, your heart, or your dignity.” – Anonymous

123. “I love this quote, ‘Never argue with an idiot. People watching won’t be able to tell the difference.’ When we are attacked and defending ourselves, we end up looking just as bad as our attacker, and our attacker will make sure to focus on only our reaction rather than what they did to cause our reaction.” – Sherrie Campbell

124. “There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.” – Herbert Prochnov

125. “Dear family, please continue to include me in your activities when it’s convenient for you, and then act confused and upset when I ignore you.” – The Black Sheep

126. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Anonymous

127. “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs—the ones who accept you for who you are.” – Anonymous

128. “There is no room for unsupportive friends and family—only space for positivity.” – Anonymous

129. “Too many of us are not living our dreams, because we are living our fears.” – Anonymous

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