Ellen DeGeneres quotes
So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.
So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.
Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.
You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced...
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a 'slow understandingЂќ: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.
There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again... to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. (from the poem 'How Sure Gravity's Law')
Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
To business.'Tux Dude extended his hand. 'I am Prometheus.' I was too surprised to shake.'The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?' Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches on his face.'Please, don't mention the vultures. But yes, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to your ancestors. In return, the ever merciful Zeus had me chained to a rock and tortured for all eternity.
Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.
It is,' I said. 'And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx.' 'What?' Dionysus cried. 'You don't trust us?' 'Someone once told me,' I said, looking at Hades, 'you should always get a solemn oath.' Hades shrugged. 'Guilty.
Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.
Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.
Well Zeus approves, Aeolus muttered. Ђ•He says he says it would be better if you could avoid saving her until after the weekend, because he has a big party plannedЂ'Ow! That's Aphrodite yelling at him, reminding him that the solstice starts at dawn. She says I should help you. And Hephaestus yes. Hmm. Very rare they agree on anything. Hold on
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.