Barbara de Angelis Quotes

If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.