Jim Henson Love Quotes and Sayings
2. Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: James Maury “Jim” Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. He died on May 16, 1990, of organ failure resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection caused by Streptococcus pyogenes.
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Sayings by Jim Henson
1. Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We’ve done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.
2. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
3. [Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
4. My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
5. The most sophisticated people I know – inside they are all children.
6. If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.
7. When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
8. I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.
9. I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey.As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you’re going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won’t be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are.
So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.
10. We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside … Inside.
11. Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
12. Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe; things don’t disappear. They just change, and change and change again.
13. ‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
14. The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.