I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
MAYA ANGELOUI 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.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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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.
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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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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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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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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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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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Live as though life was created for you.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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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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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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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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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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