Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Barbara De Angelis

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

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

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

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.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.