If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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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 did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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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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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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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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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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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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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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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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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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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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