Mother Angelica Quotes

I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.

All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.

You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

You can't go into something good until you let go of all the bad stuff because you'll find yourself steady bringing up all the old in a new situation.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.

Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.

I don't operate in fear anymore.

You can't go on living in past and having regrets. Its better people have a positive influence on other people's lives than worry about themselves.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.

I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.