{"quotes":[{"text":"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attacker","avenge","blood","budoka","bully","bushido","chin-na","consequences-life-lessons","control","culture","expert","familiarity-and-attitude","families","folklore","grapplinf-tudi","history","injury","karate","kenpo","kill","killing","kin","martial-arts","master","opportunity","people","pkinawa","punching","quotes","reaction","ryukyu","seize","sensei","shinshii","shorinjiryu","teach-a-lesson","technique","torite","warrior"],"id":1327,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child suffers abuse, fails in school, becomes delinquent, or faces teasing and bullying. We could have a society in which diverse people and organizations work together to ensure that families, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods are nurturing and that our capitalistic system functions to benefit everyone.","author":"Anthony Biglan","tags":["behavior","bullying","children","families","family","inspirational","nurture","nurturing","schools","science","society","workplace"],"id":4713,"author_id":"Anthony+Biglan"},{"text":"...In order to achieve improved outcomes for families at risk, a paradigm shift is required so that unequal outcomes for families and children are seen as social injustices, rather than as products of individual dysfunction or deficit.","author":"Philip Slee","tags":["children","families","social-justice","social-work"],"id":9432,"author_id":"Philip+Slee"},{"text":"Home is where your heart is.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["families","heart","home","house","inspiring","instinct","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","motivational","positivity","relatives","wise-words"],"id":9585,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advice","advices","advise","aphorism","aphorisms","counsel","counseling","counselling","counsellor","counsellors","counselor","counselors","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorcees","experience","extended-families","extended-family","families","family","fool","foolish","fools","humor","humour","husband","husbands","learn","learned","lesson","lessons","love","lover","lovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","marriage","marriage-proposal","marriage-proposals","married","marry","nuclear-families","nuclear-family","proposal","proposals","propose","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship","relationship-advice","relationships","satire","satirical","thought-provoking","useful","usefulness","useless","uselessness","wife","wisdom","wise","wives"],"id":9822,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.","author":"David W. Earle","tags":["black-and-white","change","chaos","communication","control","dysfunctional","families","love","recovery","thinking","trust"],"id":12454,"author_id":"David+W.+Earle"},{"text":"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["character","dogs","families","family","family-life","pets"],"id":17738,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.","author":"Joe Dilley","tags":["families","technology"],"id":19198,"author_id":"Joe+Dilley"},{"text":"Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor.","author":"Judith-Victoria Douglas","tags":["families","honor","troubles"],"id":20500,"author_id":"Judith-Victoria+Douglas"},{"text":"The thing about families, Arlo thought, was that there was always some question nobody wanted to answer for you, and it was like a stray thread pulling loose in a sweater. You could tug at it all you wanted, but in the end, all you'd have was a pile of twisted yarn.","author":"Sarah Sullivan","tags":["families","family-relationships","family-secrets"],"id":22438,"author_id":"Sarah+Sullivan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":124,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}