Family Problems Quotes

• Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.

  Steve de Shazer

  Talking, Focus, Psychology

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• I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Pain, Past, Want

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• When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Moving

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 02, 2014

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• Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

  Emma Thompson

  Family, Communication, Effective Listening

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• Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

  Dave Pelzer

  Inspirational, Children, Unhappy Childhood

  Dave Pelzer (1993). “A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive”, p.166, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Dysfunction, Problem, Picks

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• Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.

  Quincy Jones

  Strong, Self, Answers

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• I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

  Julianne Hough

  Inspirational, Girl, Women

  "Five Questions with Julianne Hough". www.seventeen.com. July 27, 2009.

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• So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

  Richelle Mead

  Ideas, Littles, Vampire Academy

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice”, p.215, Penguin UK

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• If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

  Ross W. Greene

  Iphone, Needs, Sitting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Girlfriend, Husband

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• Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Love Life, Character

  "Comic book king Stan Lee loves the everyday superhero". Interview, www.usatoday.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, Cheating, Husband And Wife

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• When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

  Wolfgang Ketterle

  Running, Weekend, Thinking

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• Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.

  Brad Meltzer

  Together, Helping, Murder

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• We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Kids, People, Rising

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

  David Popenoe

  Breakup, Lying, Home

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• African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Thinking, Racism, African American

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• But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. “You mean like incest?” she asked. “Don’t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.” “Like what, Oliver?” she asked, “like just what is it he makes you do?” “The ‘right things’”, I said. “What’s wrong with the ‘right things’?” she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.

  Erich Segal

  Mean, Eye, Giving

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• From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Ideas, Bed

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