Barbara Quotes

What allows us as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth with all of its pain drama and challenges is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

You don't just luck into things ... you build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale yellow balloon letting it go watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.

There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna or it can smooth the edges take away the insecurities let the nice things come out.

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift esson or delight that moment has to

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort.

You don't just luck into things. ... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

The very least you can do in your life is to 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.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.