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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
Barbara De Angelis
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Barbara De Angelis
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 4
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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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Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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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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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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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
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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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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
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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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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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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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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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Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
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The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.
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If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.
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All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.
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