in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
BARBARA DE ANGELISThe 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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All addictions have one thing in common – they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
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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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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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no job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.
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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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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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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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Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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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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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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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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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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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
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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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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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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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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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Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.
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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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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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Don’t be proud of what you know, and don’t be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.
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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 betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.
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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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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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