“Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.”
"A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place."
- Amy Tan
Love
"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."
- Amy Tan
Hope
"Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever."
- Amy Tan
Hope
"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."
- Amy Tan
Hope
"When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part of making sense of who I am."
- Amy Tan
Self-awareness
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."
- Pete Cashmore
Resilience