Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOUAny 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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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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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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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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We need much less than we think we need.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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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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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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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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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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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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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