Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOUAsk for what you want and be prepared to get it!
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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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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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use 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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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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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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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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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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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