Barbara De Angelis Quotes

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.

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

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

Love and kindness are never wasted.

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.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing wrong with you ... Life isn't supposed to be easy ... It is designed to be challenging so that you will grow into a more conscious, loving human being.

If you look around you at the physical universe, you will see that it's nature is growth. Everything from the cells in your body to the planets orbiting the sun are constantly growing, constantly changing, constantly evolving. Nothing stays still. Nothing remains the same. So think about it - why would your life be the exception? Why would you be the only thing that exists in all of creation whose purpose isn't to grow?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be. - Mary Anne Radmacher

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.

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.

You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.