Yes Please

by Amy Poehler

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

I believe great people do things before they are ready.

But Wordsworth stuck with me when he said, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.” This book is a spontaneous overflow in the middle of chaos, not tranquillity.

Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

Good for her! Not for me. That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.

Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.

It’s easier to be brave when you’re not alone.

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul. Violence and desperation are brutal things to search out.

The biggest lie and biggest crime is that we all do this alone and look down on people who don’t.