D.H. Barbara Quotes

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.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

The whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns... Thus we are not separated parts of a whole. We are a Whole.

Love is the face and body of the Universe.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Wonder opens and unravels reality.

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

There is no such thing as a difficult dog, only an inexperienced owner.

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

My great grandma always told me to drink a lot of milk because it's good for the skin.

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity

Love and kindness are never wasted.