If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
MAYA ANGELOUThe desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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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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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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All great achievements require time.
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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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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