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.
MAYA ANGELOUThe need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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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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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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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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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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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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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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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 hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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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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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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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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