While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
MAYA ANGELOUI 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.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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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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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing will work unless you do.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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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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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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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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