Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
MAYA ANGELOUWhen you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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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 encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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