To those who are given much, much is expected.
MAYA ANGELOUWhen we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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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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I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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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 you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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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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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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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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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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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
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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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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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All great achievements require time.
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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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