Barbara (Monique Andrée Serf) Quotes

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• It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • World
  • Moments

• Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Picture
  • Successful
  • Miracle

• The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Simple
  • Body
  • Dog

• I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Competition

• I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Changes
  • Diseases
  • Temperature

• To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Joy
  • Dependent
  • Minister

• Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Force
  • Gentleness
  • Potent

• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Existence

• I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • People
  • Country
  • Wife

• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Failing

• What's love got to do with it?

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Love

• Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now... You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Feels

• Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Family
  • Communication
  • Ingredient

• Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Done
  • Easy
  • Valuable

• People have this kind of concept that they can't change but I feel like change is possible. So who you choose to be is who you are and who you will be. I think that you can be enlightened in many different ways and if you choose to be enlightened and are someone who seeks out those things then you can be that and you will be that. If you want to be enlightened you will be enlightened. If you want to be an asshole you will be an asshole. But the greater scope of this statement is if you look at the history of humans, really, nothing has changed.

  

  David W. Marsden
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Hands

• An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of

  

  Barbara
  • Enlightened
  • Infrastructure
  • Indispensable