Barbara Feldon famous quotes

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
-- Barbara Feldon

#Way #Bliss #Permission

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
-- Barbara Feldon

#Knights #Knowing #Shining

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
-- Barbara Feldon

#Men #Hands #Challenges

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.
-- Barbara Feldon

#Marriage #Adventure #Forever

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
-- Barbara Feldon

#Missing #Secret #Life Is

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.
-- Barbara Feldon

#People #Watches #Things I Love

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.
-- Barbara Feldon

#People #Laughing #Community

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
-- Barbara Feldon

#Numbers #Needs #Compression

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
-- Barbara Feldon

#Book #Writing #Living Alone

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single ***** moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.