D.H. Barbara Quotes

in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

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.

You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

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

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.

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.

What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Every act of kindness and consideration changes and enhances the course of life.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.