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?
BARBARA DE ANGELISwhen 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?
BARBARA DE ANGELISThe 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISI invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISMarriage 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 ANGELISPassion 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISLove and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
BARBARA DE ANGELISIn order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
BARBARA DE ANGELISTemporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
BARBARA DE ANGELISOne 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISThere 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISThe 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISno job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.
BARBARA DE ANGELISAll addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
BARBARA DE ANGELISIf 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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISIt takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
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