Barbara Quotes
When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."
There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.
We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?
And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.
Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is.
See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.
Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.
Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.
People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.