Barbara De Angelis Quotes

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.

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

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

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it

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.

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

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.

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's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

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.

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

Love and kindness are never wasted.

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.

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

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

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.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.

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.

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.

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

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.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."

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.

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

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.

No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.

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.

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