Ellyn Quotes & Sayings

When we work so hard at our preparations for Christmas, we often feel cheated and frustrated when others fail to notice the results of our efforts. We need to ask ourselves why we are doing the things we choose to do. If love motivates us-love for our families, for our neighbors - then we are free to simply enjoy the actual process of what we do, rather than requiring the approval and admiration of others for the results of our labors. — Ellyn Sanna

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities. — Ryan McPartlin

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

Thanks for ... what you remember. And what you don't. It's not nothing. It's a lot. — Ellyn Bache

He said what's a nice girl like you doing
living in a Republican administration
like this? — Ellyn Maybe

God, the one true benefactor of the world, has done a work for the world in Jesus Christ, loving it, saving it, and calling it to communion with God. As Robert Taft has put it, in the deepest sense, the one true liturgy is God's work of salvation in Jesus Christ. In the Eucharist, the Christian community joins in that work made present to it again and participates in God's love enacted, made real in the world. The church, in fact, both commits to working together in the great benefaction of God's gift of love through Christ, and is empowered to be part of it. In this way, Christian faith is renewed again and again in the Eucharist, not simply as a set of ideas to be held, but a form of life to be lived. — James W. Farwell

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education. — Mahatma Gandhi

Keep it simple, and focus on what you have to do right now, not on playing with your system or your tools. — Leo Babauta

This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source. — Sue Monk Kidd

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience. — John Calvin

Jessica Lange in Frances ... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do. — Sherilyn Fenn

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. — Ellyn Bache

As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you. — Paula Hawkins

One square yard of the zero-point field contains enough energy to boil all the water in the world. — Ellyn Davis

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane — Jeffrey McDaniel

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

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice. — Idina Menzel

This is not a game of Who The Fuck Are You. — Eddie Izzard

I've wondered how someone could make me so incredibly happy if God didn't exist — Colleen Hoover

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

Our star, and most stars, are made mostly of hydrogen, which is the number one element in the universe: 90% of all atomic nuclei are hydrogen, about 8% are helium, and the remaining 2% comprise all the other elements in the periodic table. All — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

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

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

It takes much longer to climb then it does to fall — Allie Condie

Everybody's brave when they don't have any choice — Ellyn Bache

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

But some climbs you have to make alone. — Ellyn Bache

Fall in love more often.Love the journey, not just the result-Camryn Manheim — Ellyn Spragins

Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves. — Walter Hilton

The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth. — Ellyn Stern

When there is no way, you must make a way. — Kelly Creagh

Everything is research. — Court Ellyn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else's life, your own looks so much brighter. — Ellyn Bache