I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MAYA ANGELOUWithout courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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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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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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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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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