Barbara De Angelis
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.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
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.
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Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Ideas... they have the power
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Get away from her, you bitch !
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
God doesn't make junk.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.