Quotes from Barbara De Angelis

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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