I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
MAYA ANGELOUWe spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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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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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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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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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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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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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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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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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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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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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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Without 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 not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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