A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
Jodi PicoultTags: inspirational advice happiness mathematical
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
Jodi PicoultYou can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
Jodi PicoultParents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
Jodi PicoultThis is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
Jodi PicoultShe wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
Jodi PicoultIf you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.
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Entre uma boa acção e uma má acção existem mil tons de cinzento.
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