All addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
BARBARA DE ANGELISThe real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.
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in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
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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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Passion acts like a magnet that attracts us to its source. We are drawn to people who radiate with passion, who live with passion, who breathe with passion. 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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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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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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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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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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Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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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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When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?
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Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
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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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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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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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