Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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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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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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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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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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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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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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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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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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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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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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All great achievements require time.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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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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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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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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