Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOUWhen we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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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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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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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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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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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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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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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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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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