Barbara famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will....
-- Barbara

#Courage #Pain #Broken
Clutter is postponed decisions.
-- Barbara

#Decision #Clutter
My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.
-- Barbara

#Thinking #Long #Abortion
I don't invest in rich kids' businesses.
-- Barbara

#Kids #Rich #Rich Kids
Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.
-- Barbara

#Powerful #Gun #Knives
An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.
-- Barbara

#Democracy #Citizens #Ingredients

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
I love you,â€ I said, causing his face to contort in pain. â€œIâ€™m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. Iâ€™m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.â€ Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.
Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, â€˜Iâ€™m in love with a man and I canâ€™t have him.â€™ But that would only lead to questions she couldnâ€™t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
Crypto will not be broken, it will be bypassed
Achievement without fulfillment "High achievement without fulfillment is a broken way of life."

Barbara famous quotes

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