You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
MAYA ANGELOUWhat you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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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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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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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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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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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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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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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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