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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISIt takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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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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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
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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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Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
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If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it’s because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.
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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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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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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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