Ellyn Quotes

#1. A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

Rumer Godden

#2. Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why.

Ellyn Bache

#3. But some climbs you have to make alone.

Ellyn Bache

#4. Prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

Bette Lord

#5. If you can smile at your troubles then honey, you are half way saved.
- Louise from Adventures with Max and Louise

Ellyn Oaksmith

#6. Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

Alan Keyes

#7. He said what's a nice girl like you doing
living in a Republican administration
like this?

Ellyn Maybe

#8. It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

Ellyn Bache

#9. Everybody's brave when they don't have any choice

Ellyn Bache

#10. The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

Freeman Dyson

#11. Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring ... It's the next best thing to being there.

Ellyn Stern

#12. My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

Ellyn Stern

#13. In stillness I notice how time and space disappear. All there is is the present moment and my willingness to listen ... to allow the stillness to speak-Eileen Fisher

Ellyn Spragins

#14. One square yard of the zero-point field contains enough energy to boil all the water in the world.

Ellyn Davis

#15. Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it.

John Eldredge

#16. The rhythm of life runs in cycles. There are times in the darkness and times in the light. The energy of life is like the rain forest in Borneo. Things live, grow, die, fall to the forest floor, rot and then they are born again-Olympia Dukakis

Ellyn Spragins

#17. Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else's life, your own looks so much brighter.

Ellyn Bache

#18. Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.

Ellyn Spragins

#19. Thanks for ... what you remember. And what you don't. It's not nothing. It's a lot.

Ellyn Bache

#20. When you're down, remember your triumphs. [ ... ] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.

Ellyn Bache

#21. Save those thoughts for when we're alone," Morrow whispered. "Next time I get you in the dark, it isn't going to be in a hive surrounded by Dusk Warriors and chased by a Nightfighter neutralizer."

"Going to hold you to that, Sergeant."

"Never going to let go.

Nico Rosso

#22. I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

Edie Falco

#23. MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. Notice some of the beauty around you.Partake in joy. And when you get the choice to watch on the sidelines or to dance, get out there and dance- Lee Ann Womack

Ellyn Spragins

#25. Do not look around at what everyone else is doing. No one is asking you to be someone else. But the world does need you to be you, because you are the only one who can do the job. Be the person God created you to be. He made you exactly right.

Ellyn Sanna

#26. This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!"
"I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated."
-Hodge & Jace, pg.296-

Cassandra Clare

#27. The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.

Ellyn Stern

#28. Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.

Ellyn Satter

#29. Everything is research.

Court Ellyn

#30. stage-managing reality programming to extract a desired emotional response from viewers, the subjects of these series

Michael Essany

#31. Fall in love more often.Love the journey, not just the result-Camryn Manheim

Ellyn Spragins

#32. Take time to determine the way you will live your life. But once you know the way you should go, let nothing distract you from your path.

Ellyn Sanna

#33. You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.

Ellyn Bache

#34. When you succeed, you become the professor of the world

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#35. Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Bell Hooks