Option B Quotes

“Even people who have endured the worst suffering often want to talk about it.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“happiness is the joy you find on hundreds of forgettable Wednesdays.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way,”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“When we look for joy, we often focus on the big moments. Graduating from school. Having a child. Getting a job. Being reunited with family. But happiness is the frequency of positive experiences, not the intensity.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“One of my favorite posters on our office walls reads, “Nothing at Facebook is someone else’s problem.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“When we are no longer able to change a situation,” psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, “we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“​Blaming our actions rather than our character allows us to feel guilt instead of shame.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“As the worst of the grief faded, I had to restore balance in my friendships so they weren’t one-sided.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Being my friend meant not just comforting me in my grief but dealing with a level of anger that I’d never felt before and struggled to control. My anger scared me—and made me need the comfort of my friends even more.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“If friends didn’t ask how I was doing, did that mean they didn’t care?”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I will sometimes feel this awful.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Of the hundreds of answers, most had one thing in common: the majority of regrets were about failures to act, not actions that failed. Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took. As my mom often told me when I was growing up, “You regret the things you don’t do, not the things you do.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“After every low score you receive,” law professors Doug Stone and Sheila Heen advise, you should “give yourself a ‘second score’ based on how you handle the first score….Even when you get an F for the situation itself, you can still earn an A+ for how you deal with it.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I understood the power of the prayer “Let me not die while I am still alive.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“When a kid struggles at math, instead of saying, “Maybe math isn’t one of your strengths,” Dweck recommends, “The feeling of math being hard is the feeling of your brain growing.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Both deaths are woven into the fabric of my life, but they’re not what define me,” she said. “Joy is very important to me. And I can’t count on joy to come from my daughter or anyone else. It has to come from me. It is time to kick the shit out of Option C.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I have long believed that people need to feel supported and understood at work. I now know that this is even more important after tragedy. And sadly, it’s far less common than it should be.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Still, as everyone I know who has been through tragedy acknowledges with sadness, there are friends who don't come through as you might hope. A common experience is having friends who decide it's their job o inform grieving pals what they should be doing - and worse, what they should be feeling. A woman I met chose to go to work the day after her husband died because she could not bear to be at home. To this day, she still feels the disapproval of colleagues who said to her, "I'd think yo'd be too upset to be here today." You would think, but you just don't know.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“In companies, nonprofits, government, and the military, he finds that the more people believe their jobs help others, the less emotionally exhausted they feel at work and the less depressed they feel in life. And on days when people think they’ve had a meaningful impact on others at work, they feel more energized at home and more capable of dealing with difficult situations.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Self-compassion isn’t talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it’s often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“A psychiatrist friend explained to me that humans are evolutionarily wired for both connection and grief: we naturally have the tools to recover from loss and trauma.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“As the elephant in the room went unacknowledged, it started acting up, trampling over my relationships.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Wanting to improve is not a sign of weakness.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Self-compassion comes from recognizing that our imperfections are part of being human.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Poetry, philosophy, and physics all teach us that we don’t experience time in equal increments.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy