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 ANGELISA wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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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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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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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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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Love and kindness are never wasted.
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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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All addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
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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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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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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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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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When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.
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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 I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
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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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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
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It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
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