Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
BARBARA WALTERSI also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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