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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.

Barbara De Angelis

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.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Block Doorway Happiness Obstacle Purpose
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.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Girl Wisdom Wise
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.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Civilization Creating Unique
Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
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Meaningful Sacred Space
when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn’t date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?
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Fields Waste World
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Inspirational Real Strong Women
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 ANGELIS

Happiness Inspirational Real
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.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Dream Mourning Regret
no job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.
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Good Jobs Work
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.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Breathing Passion Psychics
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Inspirational Real Wisdom
I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Degree Love Want
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Change Inspirational Life
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Serious Silence Solitude
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

Acquisition Happiness Skills
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.
BARBARA DE ANGELIS

Change Dresses Yellow

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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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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