Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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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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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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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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