Barbara Quotes

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

My whole marriage to her, I finally realized, was a placeholder, leading me to this very day.

When we squander the moments of our lives, Peter, we are spending the most valuable currency.

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.

If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.

Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love.

May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.

There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.

What is hope? Like love, it is hard to define, but easy to recognize, a state of being that compels us to go on. It is a feeling that we have what we need to continue our journey to the next moment.

Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch

May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch

Put the baby on the paper.

Rituals help us change modes.

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.

Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.

Truth is the basis of all healing.

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.

She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

At the bottom of every dilemma, he says, is fear, and the brain always prefers the bird in the hand to venturing into the bush, even if you are clutching a scrawny black crow.

One does not seek love, ' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own

War is not nice.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

I can dream, though - can't I, for myself? Even if you have not the imagination or the soul?

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

the path of change is unpredictable.

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.

God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.

I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.

I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.

My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.