Quotes

Some people sit on their butts. Got the dreams, yeah, but not the guts.


Stephen Sondheim

Funny people shouldn't die.


Bob Saget

Grownups are kids plus time.


Sarah Silverman

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.


Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.


James Baldwin

None of our feelings predict anything. They’re just data on what it feels like to be us in that moment.


Dennis Palumbo

As far as you know, is not as far as you think it is.


Tracey Jackson

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.  


Rebecca Solnit

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.


Donna Lynn Hope

If you're spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to spend your time - you're wasting it.


God is not a noun it's a verb.


Father Richard Rohr

It's not about having it all. It's about having what you value most.


Jean Chatzky

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.


Robin Roberts

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.


Audrey Hepburn

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realizing that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.


Olivia de Havilland

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.


Helena Rubinstein

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.


Diana Ross

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used.


Diane Sawyer

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.


Barbara Bush

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder


Mary Karr

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.


Joan Didion

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.


Diane Keaton

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.


Goldie Hawn

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.


Mary Queen of Scots

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.


Nora Ephron

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.


Anne Lamott

Never give in. Never give up.  And it’s never too late to pursue your passion and your dreams!


Diane Gilman

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.


Margaret Atwood

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.


Salma Hyack

One must take what comes with laughter.


Olivia de Havilland

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