in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
BARBARA DE ANGELISIf 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.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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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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When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.
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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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Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
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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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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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