Jodi Picoult Quotes

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

There is no question that FEMA and the National Emergency Response System did not fail America the day that Katrina hit. They failed the day before and the days before that.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.