Barbara Quotes
Your prayers for others and the universe make a difference!
Begin your day, upon awakening, with prayers of gratitude, requests and affirmations that they are being answered—always ending with more gratitude.
Prayers can be whatever you wish them to be. They can be short or long requests, expressions of gratitude and affirmations that your requests are being honored.
One of the highest emotions is that of Gratitude… Wherever you are, offer the expression of your awareness of your blessings and how grateful you are for them.
Prayer is energy. Try to come from a higher, lighter vibration of gratitude and expectation, in place of worry and fear.
Healing is about making the choice to focus your thoughts on what feels energetically better at the level of your heart.
Affirmations are powerful and wonderful thoughts that serve you, your body, your immune system, your mind, and your spirit.
Begin your day with gratitude and end your day with gratitude. A heart filled with loving expressions of thanks is a beautiful offering to the universe.
He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.
It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.
Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.
I lost a child, " she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill.
I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)
oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)
...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)
The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
The biggest challenge in business isn’t your competition, it's what goes on inside your own head.
Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.
To dream of a magical world is one thing. To be told it exists is quite another.
I've got the baby here, " Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus.
Love draws you out of your cocoon of self-absorption to attune to others. Love allows you to really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion.
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!
A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it
Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
That's what "meaning" is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
If you're bored, you're boring.
Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn!
The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution—another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!
You raise the level of universal well-being by choosing to focus with gratitude on your blessings.
Your happiness—and your healing—are a function of how you choose to respond on the inside to that which is taking place on the outside.
You have the power to feel good—or not—just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.
When you choose self-love, you are reclaiming your awareness of your own power, which raises your vibrational energy and contributes to your healing.
Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.
Negative feelings weigh you down and can keep you from experiencing healing, as surely as stones might weigh you down if you were trying to swim.