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“How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“FORKED BRANCHES


We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same bus,
Had the same friends,
And even shared spaghetti
With each other's families.


And though our roots belong to
The same tree,
Our branches have grown
In different directions.
Our tree,
Now resembles a thousand
Other trees
In a sea of a trillion
Other trees
With parallel destinies
And similar dreams.
You cannot envy the branch
That grows bigger
From the same seed,
And you cannot
Blame it on the sun's direction.
But you still compare us,
As if we're still those two
Kids at the park
Slurping down slushies and
Eating ice cream.



Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly to the same irritating relative, or irritating employee, or irritating child day after day, week after week, year after year and come to see in that what God is asking of me, what God is teaching me about myself in this weary, weary moment.”
― Joan D. Chittister, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today

“Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same bus,
Had the same friends,
And even shared spaghetti
With each other's families.
And though our roots belong to
The same tree,
Our branches have grown
In different directions.
Our tree,
Now resembles a thousand
Other trees
In a sea of a trillion
Other trees
With parallel destinies
And similar dreams.
You cannot envy the branch
That grows bigger
From the same seed,
And you cannot
Blame it on the sun's direction.
But you still compare us,
As if we're still those two
Kids at the park
Slurping down slushies and
Eating ice cream.



Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Through the various branches of your tree, you are connected to the entirety of human history. When we talk about the ancient Egyptians building the pyramids, we're not talking about a bunch of exotic strangers, we're talking about our great-great-many-times-great grandparents!”
― Laurence Overmire, Digging for Ancestral Gold: The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest

“It is possible to change yourself and change ‘yourâ€� world. Your world consists of a small number of people like your family, friends, relatives and colleagues. By living peacefully with them, you can surely make your world better. If you are still left with more energy and life, then you can try and change the rest of the world.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.”
― Guy Murchie

“Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No one cares about distant relatives nowadays. They went out of fashion years ago.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwilling objects of a gruesome sort of reflected fame as they walked the corridors: Susan Bones, whose uncle, aunt, and cousins had all died at the hands of one of the ten, said miserably during Herbology that she now had a good idea what it felt like to be Harry.

"And I don't know how you stand it- it's horrible" she said bluntly.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Nothing brings home closer than going home...”
― Will Advise

“Home is where your heart is.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A friend is a family.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Do not refuse to help your own relatives.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sound body, serene mind, smiling face and sensible society is enough to live a satisfying social life.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Relatives are most likely the people who are going to hurt ya.”
― Deyth Banger, Brain on Porn

“Family are those we pick along the way.”
― Pablo Pereira

“Some people’s deaths would not have pained us had we not known that to them we were related.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Relatives exist so that we can appreciate our friends more.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Through age and time, we have learned how to build relations with friends, but we have lost friendship with relatives.”
― Keval Domadia, Aditya: An ALS Warrior

“We live in relative world with relatives.”
― Deyth Banger

“Poi ho capito che forse andava bene così: forse va bene anche amare qualcuno pur sapendo che finirà, che tu morirai e quella persona morirà, o che tu andrai da un’altra parte e non la rivedrai mai più, perché è questo che significa essere vivi. La vita sta proprio tutta qui: amare qualcuno.”
― John Stephens, The Black Reckoning

“Your father you esteem.
Your mother you pamper.
Your relatives you regard.
Your friends you value.
Your neighbors you respect.
Your enemies you pardon.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“the cord of two is better than one.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Employing relatives changes power dynamics.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Katika karne hii watu watawapenda zaidi marafiki kuliko ndugu.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Some won’t understand you. Some won’t support you. Some will leave you. Some won’t even care if you’re down in the dumps. But no matter what others put you through, your Creator will always be there for you. He knows every moment of your struggle. He will compensate you greatly”
― David shamala

“Once a mother is born, she remains a mother forever.”
― Aditya Sarwankar, Aditya: An ALS Warrior