“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”
"The one thing you’ve got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time."
- Emma Thompson
Love
"We tried to have another child, it didn’t work and I went into a deep clinical depression. It’s only now that I no longer count other people’s children or judge myself harshly for not providing my daughter with a sibling."
- Emma Thompson
Adversity
"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times."
- Emma Thompson
Resilience
"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."
- Emma Thompson
Connection to Earth
"Children don’t need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear."
- Emma Thompson
Empathy
"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