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.
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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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
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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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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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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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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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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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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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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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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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We need much less than we think we need.
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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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Live as though life was created for you.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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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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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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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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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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