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Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Amy Poehler
Love, Heart, People
Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

Amy Poehler
Heart, Thinking, People

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

Amy Poehler
Inspirational, Graduation, Heart
Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

Amy Poehler
Heart, Boys, Scary
Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.

Amy Poehler
Heart, Giving, Nerd
"Amy Poehler cracks jokes, offers life lessons in Harvard speech" by Jessica Derschowitz, www.cbsnews.com. May 26, 2011.

The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous, or asleepTry to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.

Amy Poehler
Heart, People, Broken
Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.

Amy Poehler
Powerful, Real, Heart

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

Amy Poehler
Adventure, Heart, Soul
Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

Amy Poehler
Children, Heart, Oxygen
Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

Amy Poehler
Real, Heart, Airplane
Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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