A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
MAYA ANGELOUTo those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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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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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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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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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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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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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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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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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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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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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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