Barbara de Angelis Quotes

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.

What is man but his passion?

But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural level, and will resume those passions that seem the most adapted to its present condition.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

Our passions are ourselves.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.