There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
MAYA ANGELOUIf you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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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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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’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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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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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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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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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.
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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