D.H. Barbara Quotes

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

Love and a good sense of humour strengthen the entire body; remember your cells respond to your input.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

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

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.

Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

There is no problem so great it cannot be solved.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

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

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.