Ellen DeGeneres
I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.
A kid should be told that you can have feelings.
I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitment that you have to stick with. And I just don't know if I can - it's too risky. Like, what if I don't like the kid?
It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school.
The truth is - and this is corny - I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time.
Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.Collection: Graduation
I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.Collection: Mistake
Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.Collection: Inspirational
If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.Collection: Saying Thank You
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.Collection: Inspirational
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.Collection: Inspirational
Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.Collection: Law
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.Collection: Giving
Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Issues
Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.Collection: Keys
Though you feel you're not where you're suppose to be, you shouldn't worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.Collection: Worry
Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?Collection: Brain
It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.Collection: Differences
The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that hurts," and your body will say, "I know." And your mind will think, "You have to get out of this position." And your body will say, "I agree with you, but I can't right now. I think I'm stuck.Collection: Hurt
Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.Collection: Crazy
I don't know what people are scared of...maybe they think their children will be influenced by gay marriage, but I've got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked - heterosexuals. And they did not influence me. It's time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.Collection: Children
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.Collection: Graduation
This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.Collection: Real
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.Collection: Keys
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.Collection: Technology
Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.Collection: Thinking
I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.Collection: Fitness
We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.Collection: Mistake
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.Collection: Book
I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That's where us gay people come from - you heterosexuals.Collection: Inspirational
Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.Collection: Fun
Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.Collection: Funny
It's nice when people love you....for you.Collection: Nice
There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.Collection: Inspirational
I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.Collection: Patience
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.Collection: Doors
Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.Collection: Bye
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique.Collection: Fun
My life is perfect even when it's not.Collection: Perfect
For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses.Collection: Yoga
Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the mostCollection: Teach
It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.Collection: Challenges
It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.Collection: Funny Inspirational
Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for breakfast, you couldn’t just go on the Internet and tweet it out. There was only one way to do it. You had to go outside and scream at the top of your lungs, 'I ate waffles for breakfast!' That’s why so many people ended up in institutions. They seemed crazy, but when you think about it, they were just ahead of their time.Collection: Crazy
I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.Collection: Laughter
Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.Collection: Funny
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.Collection: Believe