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Sanda Berar

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Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Art, Biography, Ebooks

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I was born in Romania, lived in Finland for almost 20 years, and moved to the USA, near Seattle, in my mid-forties. I have a master’s degree in computer engineering and a Ph.D. in economics and have worked for decades in the tech industry. I now spend my days building gadgets and my evenings painting and writing. I've discovered painting and art’s healing power late in life, and by sharing my work, I invite you to discover how art can be therapeutic and help you free your emotions and heal. ...more

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	Portraits of a woman: A memoir in paintings and poems 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sanda’s Quotes

“Well!” thought Alice to herself. “After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!” (Which was very likely true.)”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

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“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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