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.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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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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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 making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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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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