in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
BARBARA DE ANGELISThere has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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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.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Passion acts like a magnet that attracts us to its source. We are drawn to people who radiate with passion, who live with passion, who breathe with passion. Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.
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The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
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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.
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
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when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn’t date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break… but broken live on.
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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.
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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.
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.
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It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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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
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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.
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At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, ‘I was always happy.’ Hopefully, we will be able to say, ‘I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.’
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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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.
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When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?
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Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.
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Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.
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