Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
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Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.
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I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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Although the insights we can have in meditation tell us nothing about the origins of the universe, they do confirm some well-established truths about the human mind: Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
