A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
MAYA ANGELOUThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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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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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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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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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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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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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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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 don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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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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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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