Catherine Ely > Catherine's Quotes

“Your Here, There's Nothing I Fear.”
― Celine Dion, My Heart Will Go on

“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
― Alysha Speer

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
― Albert Camus

“Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.”
― Charles Fisher

“The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.”
― Stephen Fry

“No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good...she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.”
― Olive Green

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.”
― Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns