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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISNo one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
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no job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.
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Love and kindness are never wasted.
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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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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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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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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
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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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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 just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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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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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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I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
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Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.
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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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Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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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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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break… but broken live on.
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Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.
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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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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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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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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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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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