“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times.”
"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
"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."
- Emma Thompson
Personal Growth
"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
"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 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