Erma Bombeck Quotes

Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

What is important is that we stop and realize, 'Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that.' But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I find all my friends very beautiful.

I want to increase awareness for the importance of life.

'Citylights' is for those people who know a lot but don't feel at all. It's time for them to feel, and this film will make those people, who know so much, feel because feeling is the life blood of human race, which is disappearing.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.