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.
MAYA ANGELOUYou may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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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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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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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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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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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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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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We need much less than we think we need.
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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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