Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

by Whoopi Goldberg

Not everybody gets to walk this earth with folks who let you be exactly who you are

and who give you the confidence to become exactly who you want to be.

You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself.”

“You’ve got two choices. You can waste a lot of time complaining, or you

can get up and figure out how to fix it.”

“Listen, there are going to be terrible things that happen in the world. And there’s

nothing you can do about them. They are what they are. But your decision is going to have to be, ‘Do I allow those bad things to stunt my growth as a human being? Am I

just going to sit down and die over it? Or am I going to try to figure out how to be better?’ Which one do...

Her attitude was if you believe in God, then you have to believe that God is really smart and made us smart enough to

know how to maneuver through this life.

The loss of your mom is the loss of the first person who ever looked at you

and thought, This is my baby.

When you’re a kid, you never think about that relationship coming to an end. Even as you get older, you

don’t let your mind fully accept that she’s not going to be there someday.

For those of us who have lost our mom, our grief is going to be differe...

If you mourn right away or try to put it on hold, or can’t really feel much at all, there is still one

thing we all have in common. There’s no timeline and no finite ending to grief for your mom. You keep waiting for it to change or to feel differently.

Some days the tears are going to come, and you just ha...

It’s not a grief that has an end date. It evolves, but it stays around.