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.
MAYA ANGELOUWhen we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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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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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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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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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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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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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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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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All great achievements require time.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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