Barbara De Angelis
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.Collection: Wedding
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.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Courage
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Relationship
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.Collection: Women
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.Collection: Love
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.Collection: Courage
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.Collection: Anger
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.Collection: Love
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Age
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Marriage
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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.
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.
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 just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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.
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.Collection: Happiness
It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.Collection: Authenticity
All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.Collection: Teacher
When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Inspirational
Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.Collection: Love Is
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.Collection: Ordinary
If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Block
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 itCollection: Believe
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.Collection: Inspirational
Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.Collection: Integrity
Your passion is your true power. The more you discover and express your passion for life, the more irresistible you will become to others.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Love
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.'Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: May
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.Collection: Running
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.Collection: Happiness
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 meaningCollection: Pain
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.Collection: Passion
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.Collection: Broken Heart
I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Love Is