Barbara Quotes
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.
Rosalyn Bruyere has been one of the most important teachers of hands-on healing in the world for many years. I will always be grateful for what I have learned from her.
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are.
Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.
I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.
My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.
Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.
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.
