Amy Krouse Rosenthal Quotes

• At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Essence, World, Remember

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• I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Tuesday, Looks, Alive

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.150, Broadway Books

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• From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Stars, Truth, Age

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• No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Food, Health, Cake

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• Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Mean, Cookies, Moments

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• It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Memories, Busy, Making Memories

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1998). “The Book of Eleven: An Itemized Collection of Brain Lint”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Wish, Way, Reader

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010

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• It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Would Be, Outcomes, Bowling

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010

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• I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Odds, Stories, Extraordinary

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Weekend, Smell, Alarms

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• If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Bad Mood, Tickling, Mood

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• I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Cake, Wish, Rice Cakes

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• If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Strong, Growing Up, Papa

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