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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.

Barbara De Angelis

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Barbara De Angelis
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 4
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When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.
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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
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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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Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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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.
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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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Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
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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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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.
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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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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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