Best 62 quotes of Barbara De Angelis on MyQuotes

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

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.'

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.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

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.

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.

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.

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.

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

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.

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.

I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

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.

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.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Love and kindness are never wasted.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

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.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

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.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.

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.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

Temporary 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.

That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

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

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.