We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
MAYA ANGELOUMost 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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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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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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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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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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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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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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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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