Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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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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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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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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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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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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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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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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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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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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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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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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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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