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About angelina salacinski
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I am always reading books and I have various books on quotations. I can answer most questions on quotations from books or other areas.

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i am always doing quizzes so i have a broad knowledge about most things,but i love browsing through my quotation books.

 
   

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Expert: angelina salacinski - 2/4/2003

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I am looking for just the right words for a girlfriend of mine, who is turning 26.  She has just set out on a personal journey, after trying to ignore that she wanted more from her life and what hangs in the balance is an old-fashioned husband and security and a form of contented love, pitted against the truth about who she is and what she wants in life.  Her husband is not very supportive about her discovery endevors and there is a threat of divorce.  I want to sum up that feeling that she may be muddling through, the anxiety and fear and apprehension, mixed with the excitement and inspiration and anticipation of getting to know herself and the rest of the world through the limitless, creative facets of her own persona.  Do you know of anything?  Any era would do, but an early time would be more pleasing to her.  She feels like an imprisioned female of the 18th century, daring to break free of tradition.  And, can you imagine.. in this day and age and at her tender age.  I don't want her next youthful decade to slip away.  Thank-you.

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Hi Penny
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but here are a few i have picked;

'God give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed,give us the courage to change what should be changed,give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other'-reinhold niebuhr

'a man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it'-george moore

'nothing is wasted,nothing is in vain.the seas roll over but the rocks remain'-a p herbert

'from the standpoint of pure reason,there are no good grounds to support the claim that one should sacrifice one's own happiness to that of others'-somerset maugham

don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
Ruskin, John

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Johnson, Samuel

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Thoreau, Henry David

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Gibran, Kahlil

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Black, Claudia

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Nair, Keshavan

I need to take an emotional breath, step back and remind myself who's actually in charge of my life.
Knowlton, Judith

i hope you find one you like.
luckily she has a friend like you to help her on her way-all the best-angelina

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