Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I know that I have a special stomach.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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When they talked of love and women—and of course they sometimes talked of love and women — Lewes would bring out views which Christopher, whose views they used to be too, only he had forgotten that, considered, now that he had come to know Catherine, as so much—the word was his—tripe.
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Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
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I always have to prove that I can be better.
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Do not expect good from another's death.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
