Jodi Picoult Quotes

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

All of us prepare our own lunch. If we don't like our jobs, if we don't like the state of our relationships, if we don't like what's happening to our spiritual lives - we have no one to blame but ourselves. Because God has given us free will.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do.

You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.

Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.