Jane Wagner Quotes

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Reality is just a collective hunch.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

I worry whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you do not understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

See, the human mind is kind of like...a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? —JANE WAGNER

If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you don’t see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you think Grand Theft Auto IV is the greatest Gesamtkunstwerk since Wagner, I’m very happy for you, as long as you keep it to yourself.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer’s and has forgotten we exist.

Osobiście uważam, że ludzie wymyślili język z powodu naszej głębokiej, wewnętrznej potrzeby narzekania. — Jane Wagner

If you cannot increase reflective power in people, you might as well not teach, because reflection is the only thing that in the long run changes anybody

Why is it when we talk to God it’s called praying, but if God talks back it’s called schizophrenia? —JANE WAGNER

All my life I’ve wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

[...] an urban bag lady, views society from her perspective on the street. Her words underscore the interactionist position that social reality is created and validated within community: It's my belief we all, at one time or another, secretly ask ourselves the question, "Am I crazy?" In my case, the answer came back: A resounding YES! You're thinkin': How does a person know if they're crazy or not? Well, sometimes you don't know. Sometimes you can go through life suspecting you are but never really knowing for sure. Sometimes you know for sure 'cause you got so many people tellin' you you crazy that it's your word against everyone else's... After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch

THE GIFT I GIVE MYSELF Our voices turn so easily into too much noise. The gift I give myself is a day of silence so that I might retrieve what has been lost in the clamor— of cars, the frenzy, the gossip— what we mistake for connection. In silence, I watch the leaves, each crimson and tangerine hue more brilliant than the next on its slow descent— as if a message is there for the reading. In silence, I hear the wind crackling its own stormy song. In silence, I notice a branch bending in the wind, as if to lean closer, to whisper in my ear its timeless secrets. —jane butkin wagner