“Failure is temporary, but defeat is permanent.”— Tom Panaggio Related Quotes “You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it instead as the hand of a friend, pressing you down to the ground on which it is safe to stand?”— Parker J. Palmer “Today, do what you talked about doing yesterday.”— Bianca McCormick-Johnson “I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it’s writing time, I write.”– Jodi Picoult