Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Think
  • Feel

• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Occupation
  • Siege

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Like

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Ornament
  • Graceful

• I'm a bit of a control freak.

  

  E. L. James
  • Control
  • Bit
  • Control Freak

• I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

  

  Becky G
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • You
  • Like
  • Imagine

• The name Jack was given by an American tourist.

  

  Jack Ma
  • American
  • Name
  • Tourist

• You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Writing
  • Choices

• I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Work
  • School
  • Single

• I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • World

• “You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.”

  

  Matt Maher
  • Alone
  • Lonely
  • Afraid

• 'You are certain you can keep the truth from her?' 'Sure,' Ed said confidently. 'I know I can.' 'All right.' The Old Man nodded slowly. 'I will send you back. But you must tell no one.' He swelled visibly. 'Remember: you will eventually come back to me - everyone does, in the end - and your fate will not be enviable.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Fate

• The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • World
  • Work
  • Love