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.
MAYA ANGELOUIt 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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Nothing will work unless you do.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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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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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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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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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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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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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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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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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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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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