“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother…When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone."
- Anna Quindlen
Love
"There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too."
- Anna Quindlen
Love
""When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother…When your mother's gone, you've lost your past. It's so much more than love. Even when there's no love, it's so much more than anything else in your life. I did love my mother, but I didn't know how much until she was gone.""
- Anna Quindlen
Love
"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother."
- Anna Quindlen
Belief
"Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first."
- Anna Quindlen
Balance
"We are all capable of change, both in our actions and our hearts."
- Beauty and the Beast
Personal Growth
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."
- Clayton M. Christensen
Personal Growth
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
Personal Growth