Barbara De Angelis Quotes
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.
in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.
Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.
To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.
A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.
I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.
I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.
