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.
BARBARA DE ANGELISAll addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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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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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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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
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The 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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no job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.
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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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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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Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
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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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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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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
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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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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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