in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
BARBARA DE ANGELISNo 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.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. … The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.
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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.
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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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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.
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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.
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Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
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When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
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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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There 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.
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I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
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Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?
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It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better – all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.
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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.
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