D.H. Barbara Quotes

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Find your inside beautyness. For me, being beautiful inside is more important that being beautiful outside. Make-up is so good for that because it helps to show your personality.

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

We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

Books are humanity in print.

The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

Positivity transforms us for the better.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making special melodies of sound to balance your chakras and tune up your body.

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.

I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

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.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.

The Quality of Love or Fear you Carry into each Moment determines which Road you Travel.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.