Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
MAYA ANGELOUYou 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!
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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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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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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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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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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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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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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