Jane Clayson Johnson > Quotes

“If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.”
― Jane Clayson Johnson, I Am a Mother

“In every person's story there are unknowns-struggles only they know about, fears they've tried to overcome but still harbor, disappointments & sorrows they bear. The last thing any of us wants-or needs-is to be judged by others who don't know our stories, in part or at all.”
― Jane Clayson Johnson, I Am a Mother

“She could still be. She could still be a mom and a wife, and there were still things she could be from bed. She could still find joy in her children. She could study and learn.”
― Jane Clayson Johnson, Silent Souls Weeping: Depression—Sharing Stories, Finding Hope

“When you are depressed, believing you have failed at something regularly referred to as ‘the plan of happiness’ can very quickly generate despair.”
― Jane Clayson Johnson, Silent Souls Weeping: Depression—Sharing Stories, Finding Hope