If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
MAYA ANGELOUSuccess is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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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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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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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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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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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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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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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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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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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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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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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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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All great achievements require time.
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