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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.

Barbara De Angelis

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Barbara De Angelis
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 4
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Psychologist
Writer
Moments
Live
Acquisition
Skill
Skills
Happiness
Moment
Experience

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No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.
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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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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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in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
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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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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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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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I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
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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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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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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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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.
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