You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
MAYA ANGELOUThe 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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first 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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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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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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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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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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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’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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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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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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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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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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