The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOUNever make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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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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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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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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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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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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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 making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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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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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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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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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!
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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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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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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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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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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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