1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven’t been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn’t that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you’re with feel like they matter.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we’re the ones who securely tied the knot.

But there’s an enormous difference between an audience that’s watching you because they can’t wait to see what comes next and an audience that’s watching you because they’re waiting for you to fail.

There are some weapons you can’t protect yourself against.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation – expectation divided by reality – you didn’t get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

But there is a different between mending someone who’s broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future.