SO GOOD QUOTES

  • If this relationship is your parents, God wants you to fight more because he asked us to honor our parents.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef

  • “They’re wrong…my parents, they’re the worst.” Maybe you’re right, but the way you’re going about it is wrong.

    —Fr. Elijah Estafanous

  • The stress of a loss makes everyone feel weary and old, of course, but I always felt as though the loss of her mother aged my mom in a way that was both far less tangible and much more real: she was no longer forever young in comparison to someone else, no longer still a baby in somebody’s heart and mind. 

    home for the holidays
    rayne fisher-quann

  • The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else. 

    —Douglas Kennedy, The Pursuit of Happiness

  • There is tension between George and Johnny, between Ashley and Johnny, between the world and Johnny. He spends long hours away from everyone, but watch him down in the basement, when a documentary about meerkats comes on TV. He knows his wife “loves meerkats.” He races around desperately to find a blank videotape, so he can tape the show. It would mean so much to him to give her this video. He fails. Ashley explains about the tab that keeps you from re-recording over something, but he responds with anger and, of course, takes it out on her.

    from Junebug review by Roger Ebert

  • “In mourning, I have learned that every version of myself must grieve her loss.”

    “That sense of longing now extends to feeling outside of my body. Someone recently told me that losing your mother is primal. It is the deepest loss.”

    “I had not been vigilant on either occasion and I had missed something. I had missed everything.”

    “She had brought me into this world and I was helping her out of it.”

    What My Mother Didnt Talk About
    Karolina Waclawiak

  • As she went, she felt a stab of regret for letting her father die without trying to give his stifled life the breath of air she had given to so many others.

    Amélie (2001)

  • “…and it was said that Rossetti never got over his wife’s death, because he thought he had not been perfectly kind to her during the last years of her life, and that she might have lived longer if he had been more kindly. His friends repudiate that, and say it is not true; but if it was not true of Rossetti, it is true of many people.

    The sin of neglect, the sin of inattention, the sin of absorption in self, these have wrought a great sorrow in the lives of some, and they never rise out of the dust after.”

    The Gift of Suffering
    by F.B. Meyer

  • “Yea but this is what parents should do”

    …

    When you start thinking this way—that you’re giving blows to the righteous, the people who love you the most and care about you the most, then you’re a fool, you’re wicked, you’re stupid. You are not able to see the reality of life, you’re not able to see the moral obligation you have. 

    —Fr Mina Dimitri

  • We want to keep ourselves from putting blame for our misfortune on anybody else, no matter how obviously it may appear to be the fault of another person. Misfortune is meant to give us a bigger purpose than looking for someone to blame. It is to draw our attention to God and our need for God-to bring us to repentance.

    God’s Path to Sanity
    Dee Pennock