The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.
BARBARA DE ANGELISPassion 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.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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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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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.
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Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
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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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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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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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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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Love and kindness are never wasted.
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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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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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I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
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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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Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
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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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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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A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.
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No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.
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If you don’t develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won’t be any happier when you get more.
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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 will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?
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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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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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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
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