“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.”
- N. Smith

“A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can’t help getting old, but you don’t have to get old.”
- George Burns

“Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out. ”
- Tina Turner

“The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
- Jill Churchill

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
- Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

“For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.”
- Anonymous