Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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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 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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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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We need much less than we think we need.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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