Enlightened - Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern) Quotes

All I will say is that if you haven't been watching Enlightened check it out,
… though it may not be for everyone,  you’ve missed out on something pretty damn amazing.

"UGH, ‘Enlightened’ is so painful to watch. It’s so good, but everyone is just so horrible towards Laura Dern’s character and I just want to give her a hug and tell her that everything’s going to be okay"

LAURA DERN QUOTES:  

"I’m speaking with my true voice now, without bitterness or fear. And I’m here to tell you, you can walk out of hell and into the light, you can wake up to your higher self, and when you do the world is suddenly full of possibility of wonder and deep connection. You can be patient, and you can be kind, and you can be wise and almost whole. You don’t have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change and you can be an agent of change”

“My first love, my husband. My heartbreak, my pain. It feels so easy now. Here, you’re not the cheat and the liar. I’m not the nag and the shrew. And we’re not old or young. There’s no bitterness or illusions, no need for fear or hope. We’re just spirits drifting through this perfect earth together. We can be free of our sad stories. They float away till they’re like memories of a dream from the night before; shadows under the water and what’s left is pure life. Life is the gift.”
—
Amy Jellicoe (Enlightened S1E4)


“Everything can be transformed. Every single thing. Goodness exists. It’s all around. It’s just sleeping. It can be wakened.”
—
Amy Jellicoe, Enlightened

“Let’s be hopeful, you and me. We can try to do something and not just be dying. I’m so sick of dying.”
—
Amy Jellicoe, ‘Enlightened’

“Sometimes, late at night, visited by dread and shame, I lie in bed and think of somebody else’s life. I imagine the love that they’re getting, and the relief that comes from being really known. The private pleasure they share. The friends they have and the pressures they don’t. Their sense of importance, the satisfactions of their work. I imagine how fulfilled they are, how rich their life is.
And in these moments, I feel empty, and wanting.
Sometimes I think about someone else’s life. I imagine all the love they do not have. I see the passion that’s missing. The friends they don’t know, and the awful pressures that crush them.
In those moments, I realize how much I have, and how much I have to give”
—
Amy Jellicoe (Laura Dern)- Enlightened

“Blessed are the moments in life when the decisions are clear, when doubt shrugs and slinks away, ashamed of itself, and resolve embraces you like a long, lost lover.
Sweet certainty, where have you been?
No matter…
No longing.
No looking back.
Welcome the consequences when your heart is alert and lucid.
What bad can come?”
—
Amy Jellicoe, HBO’s Enlightened


“I’ve lived in a world full of not-good-enough mothers. Imperfect, bad mothers. But the mother is a child, too. She is a child. I will stop waiting for you to be the perfect mother. I will be patient with you. I will be tender. I will be the mother I wanted you to be."

“Everything can be transformed.  Every single thing.  Goodness exists.  It is all around.  It’s just sleeping.  It can be wakened.  If Levi can change anything is possible.  I will not be afraid, I will be bolder.  I will go straight to the top and breathe light into the darkest hearts. “ —Amy Jellicoe

“You can try to escape the story of your life, but you can’t. It happened. The baby died, the dog died, the heart broke. I knew you when you were young—I know your heart broke too—I will know you when we are both old—and maybe wise, I hope wise—I know you now, your story. Mine isn’t the one I would have chosen in the beginning, but I’ll take it. It is my story, it’s only mine, and it’s not over, there’s time. There is time. There’s so much time.”
—
Amy Jellicoe (Enlightened 1x04: The Weekend)

“This kingdom; this amazing kingdom we have made. This monstrous kingdom; its castles are magic. They are beautiful. They are built on dreams and iron and greed. They are inorganic and cannot sustain. No kingdom lasts forever. Even this will end, and life and earth will reign again.”
—
Amy Jellicoe, Enlightened

Find Your Happy Spot

Find your happiness. 
 
Sometimes you have to search and search hard.   Sometimes it seems impossible.

Believe me, I know this is definitely not easy to do when one is faced with a serious illness or any other life's many serious issues that are bound to pop up every now and again. However, I want to share with you that it is laughter which has helped me through so many of life's minor and tragic trials.

So, watch a funny movie, read a funny book, hang out with happy and positive friends, journal about: your ups, your downs, your funny moments; dance, and be silly. Whatever it takes to make yourself smile or laugh, just lift yourself up and do it! Even if that smile is for one moment, it's worth it; and good for your mind, body and soul. Love, Cyd

You can also find my other blog The Pink Cherokee Warrior Princess Stories on my Facebook page by clicking on https://www.facebook.com/CherokeeWarrior64 

On grieving ...

 4/14/13  From a post on a friends facebook page today: 

"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew"
~Henry Rollins~

Especially family :(
 

 "I hear ya on that...family I can lose, they eventually come back...but my best friend...that was very hard to deal with....I never got over it."

3/13/13

This is a Deep and Profound message ...
Let's focus on being Alive ... and cherish all the little things...
And all that we take for granted ... ♥ 

3/12/13 Two quotes on grief:

“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott