A.B. Shepherd Quotes

Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

One of my mottos is flaunt what you've got left.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.

The truth will always have a market.

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

God experiences Life through each of us, and we experience Life thanks to God.

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.

I won't deny that I'm in touch with my feminine side. If I'm in a lift and there's no one in there, I'll have a glance and check my hair. And if there's someone in there, I'll still check it.

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.