I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
MAYA ANGELOUMaking a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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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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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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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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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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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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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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