I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
MAYA ANGELOUSuccess is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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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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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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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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 can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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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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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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