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.
MAYA ANGELOUThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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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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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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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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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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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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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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We need much less than we think we need.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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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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