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To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

Barbara De Angelis

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Barbara De Angelis
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 4
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Psychologist
Writer
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Something
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
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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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Love and kindness are never wasted.
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May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.
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One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.
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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.
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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
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It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.
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Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
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There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
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I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?
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Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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