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.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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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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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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