44 quotes
"When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows."
- Amy Poehler
Love
"Sleep at this point is just a concept, something I’m looking forward to investigating in the future."
- Amy Poehler
Awareness
"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'"
- Amy Poehler
Balance
"Limit your ' always' and your ' nevers.'"
- Amy Poehler
Balance
"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers'."
- Amy Poehler
Balance
"Limit your 'Always' and your 'Nevers'."
- Amy Poehler
Balance
"The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are."
- Amy Poehler
Compassion
"“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”"
- Amy Poehler
Compassion
"I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?"
- Amy Poehler
Self-awareness
"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."
- Amy Poehler
Self-awareness
"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."
- Amy Poehler
Personal Growth
"There is no disappointment so numbing as someone not showing up, and there is no satisfaction as sweet as having someone make way for you."
- Amy Poehler
Relationships
"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life."
- Amy Poehler
Relationships
"Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible … 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’s been broken."
- Amy Poehler
Courage
"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."
- Amy Poehler
Motivation
""You can’t do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life.""
- Amy Poehler
Teamwork
"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever."
- Amy Poehler
Teamwork
"As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own."
- Amy Poehler
Teamwork
"You can’t do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life."
- Amy Poehler
Teamwork
""Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.""
- Amy Poehler
Teamwork
"It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world."
- Amy Poehler
Creativity
"“It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.”"
- Amy Poehler
Creativity
"Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever."
- Amy Poehler
Resilience
"Thirty is the new twenty. Embrace the wisdom, experience, and possibilities that come with this milestone."
- Amy Poehler
Growth
"As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."
- Amy Poehler
Growth
"Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again."
- Amy Poehler
Healing
"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."
- Amy Poehler
Connection to Earth
"I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things."
- Amy Poehler
Connection to Earth
"It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need."
- Amy Poehler
Empowerment
"I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind learning."
- Amy Poehler
Ambition
"I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading."
- Amy Poehler
Ambition
"Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands."
- Amy Poehler
Change
"Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that’s what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s really special, and if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself."
- Amy Poehler
Taking Risks
"Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it."
- Amy Poehler
Taking Risks
"I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."
- Amy Poehler
Gratitude
"If you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world."
- Amy Poehler
Joy
"People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way."
- Amy Poehler
Joy
"“People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.”"
- Amy Poehler
Joy
"There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do."
- Amy Poehler
Boldness
"I believe great people do things before they are ready."
- Amy Poehler
Boldness
"If you can dance and be free and be embarrassed, you can rule the world."
- Amy Poehler
Boldness
"Change the world by being yourself."
- Amy Poehler
Independence
""There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.""
- Amy Poehler
Bravery
""Limit your ' always' and your ' nevers.'""
- Amy Poehler
Moderation