Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOULove 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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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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All great achievements require time.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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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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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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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.
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