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.
MAYA ANGELOUA friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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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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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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All great achievements require time.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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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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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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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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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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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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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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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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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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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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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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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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