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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Maya Angelou

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Brain Heart People Straight Women Writing
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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Acceptance Ache Comfortable Home Live Pain Place Safe
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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Acceptance Bless Chariry Cheer Compassion Gratitude
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.
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Falling In Love Life Love
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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Elegance Life One Liner Survive
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Arrive Barrier Destination Hope Jump Love
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Forget Learning Life Love People Positive Special
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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Fantasy Lucky Reality Transform
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Bear Greatness Healing Inspirational Writing
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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Development Inspirational Live Philosophy Pleasure World
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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Bless Goodness Happiness Joy Peace Prosperity
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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Girl Humour Inspirational Kick Life Love World Young
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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Creation God Myself Realize Remember
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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Achievement Beautiful Butterfly Change Inspirational
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Alone Healing Prove Self Respect
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOU

Compose Life Poetry Stand Writing

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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