Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
MAYA ANGELOUTo those who are given much, much is expected.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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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 shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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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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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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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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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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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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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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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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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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