My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
MAYA ANGELOUThe main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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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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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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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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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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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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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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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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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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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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