Barbara O'Neal Quotes
That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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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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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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While other sectors are growing, sugar continues to decline and that is why ... we have to take the decisions that we are taking.
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You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.
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...you have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it came to the things that mattered.
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.
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That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
