You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
MAYA ANGELOULet gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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