At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, ‘I was always happy.’ Hopefully, we will be able to say, ‘I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.’
BARBARA DE ANGELISSilence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
More Barbara De Angelis Quotes
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Don’t be proud of what you know, and don’t be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.
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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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A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.
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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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Love and kindness are never wasted.
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Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
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A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.
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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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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 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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no job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.
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It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
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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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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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Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.
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