Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
MAYA ANGELOUMy mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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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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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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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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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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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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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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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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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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