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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The first duty of love is to listen.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Act or accept.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
The best things in life are free.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
All mankind love a lover.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Don't think it, ink it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Bond. James Bond.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Come, let us make love deathless.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Things do not change we change.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Follow your dreams.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.