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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Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
I am your father.
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.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I like to watch.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The past does not equal the future.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Happiness is a choice.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
If you build it, he will come.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
I'll be back.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.