You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break… but broken live on.
BARBARA DE ANGELISWhen I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
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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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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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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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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
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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.
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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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Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?
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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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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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When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.
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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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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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