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. Barbara De Angelis More Quotes by Barbara De Angelis More Quotes From Barbara De Angelis I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier. Barbara De Angelis scary knowing people Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . . Barbara De Angelis sacred space meaningful I just want to get a Ph.D. in love. Barbara De Angelis want 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. Barbara De Angelis mourning regret dream When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta." Barbara De Angelis real past thinking It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present. Barbara De Angelis dream live-in-the-moment america You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Barbara De Angelis The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara De Angelis The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara De Angelis The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present. Barbara De Angelis We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Barbara De Angelis day courage happy relationship 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. Barbara De Angelis day marriage wife heart A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. Barbara De Angelis man women time thinking