I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
MAYA ANGELOULove 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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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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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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All great achievements require time.
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