My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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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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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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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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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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