Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
Interpretation
Surround yourself with people who uplift you, and do so early in life for better well-being.
This quote emphasizes the importance of cultivating healthy relationships by distancing oneself from those who bring negativity or unhappiness. Amy Poehler advocates for the proactive approach of removing toxic individuals from one's life, suggesting that doing so earlier can lead to a more positive and fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-improvement, reference this quote to encourage the audience to prioritize their well-being.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
Itβs very hard to have ideas. Itβs very hard to put yourself out there, itβs 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.
Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.
When I came out to my mother in 1990, her first words of advice were to not tell anyone. She said being gay could hurt my nascent career. The reaction was as painful as it was understandable: Back then, the world was a very different place for a 20-something LGBTQ American.
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
Koreans are worried about the Japanese right-wing people, who tend to be against foreigners. But the Koreans in Japan aren't even foreigners. They are essentially culturally Japanese. If a family has lived in Japan for three generations, it's absurd to see them as foreigners.
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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