There is something about TM. It is the only time Ellen DeGeneres More Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres More Quotes From Ellen DeGeneres I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world. Ellen DeGeneres inner-peace trying beautiful I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes. Ellen DeGeneres sensitive-person atmosphere thinking I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me. Ellen DeGeneres strange funny people We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.' Ellen DeGeneres lunch procrastination talking We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else. Ellen DeGeneres finding-happiness mind trying Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on. Ellen DeGeneres diapers each-day way Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen. Ellen DeGeneres hilarious oxygen cards It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me. Ellen DeGeneres meditation-practice crazy inspiration I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there. Ellen DeGeneres compassion kindness world ...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring. Ellen DeGeneres cousin grateful years Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast. Ellen DeGeneres procrastination way moving Something big happened over the weekend. Something that affects everybody, all over the world. George Clooney got married. Ellen DeGeneres married weekend world I'm not going to say who looks the most beautiful, but it's clear. It's Jared Leto. I mean, he's the prettiest. Boy is he pretty Ellen DeGeneres beautiful boys mean I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith. Ellen DeGeneres stars believe jesus It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder… why didn't I get this sooner? Ellen DeGeneres awards honor people I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I knew would possibly end my career. Instead of making business more important I made my soul and my life more important. And I think by being truthful, and being honest, that saved me. Ellen DeGeneres careers soul thinking I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy. Ellen DeGeneres dinner party use Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Ellen DeGeneres wall christian school I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart. Ellen DeGeneres kmart clothes knows While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses. Ellen DeGeneres dresses wanted people
