You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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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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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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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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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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