We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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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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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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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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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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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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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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