The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOUSuccess is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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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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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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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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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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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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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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