In Other Words

"Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken. Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a Batman with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value."

-Amy Poehler

“If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough."

-Lowell Lundstrom

When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question:"Is this person in between me and what do I want to do?" If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you're in charge, don't hire the people who were jerky to you.

-Tina Fey

“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”

-Tina Fey

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

-H. Jackson Brown

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."

-William Shedd

“Believing in even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing."

-Snow White (Once Upon A Time) 

"Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic."

-Mad Hatter (Once Upon A Time) 

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

-Bill Nye

“'I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.'” 

-Louis C.K.

"Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.” 

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

-Augustus Waters The Fault in Our Stars

“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”

-The Fault in Our Stars