Inspirational Quotes by Joan Didion — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”

“He ran his fingers over the moist ends of her hair and across her face. Her eyes were wet.”

“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”

“The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago...”

“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.”

“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.”

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”