Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
MAYA ANGELOULiving 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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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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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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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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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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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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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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