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.
MAYA ANGELOUTo those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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What 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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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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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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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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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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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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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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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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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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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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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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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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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