I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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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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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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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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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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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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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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