“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”
"My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love in spite of the fact that they're not."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him."
- Jodi Picoult
Love
"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